Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders
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Two key challenges face mental health practitioners: making thecorrect psychiatric diagnosis and choosing the most appropriatetreatment option. This book aims to help with both.
Clinical Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of MentalDisorders - Second Edition combines clinically-relevantinformation about each of theDSM-IV-TR diagnoses with clear,detailed information on treatment options, giving full clinicalmanagement advice. Once again, the editors, both leadingpsychiatrists, have condensed the chapters on Disorders from Tasmanet al's acclaimed two volume textbook of Psychiatry(now in its Third Edition), retaining only the content they deemparticularly relevant to the clinician for ease of use.
Each disorder is discussed under the headings of Diagnosis(including Assessment Issues, Comorbidity, Course, and DifferentialDiagnosis, giving diagnostic decision trees where relevant) andTreatment (listing all therapeutic options, giving practical advicefor patient management, summarising treatment specifics with tablesand treatment flowcharts).
The original edition established itself as the first point ofreference for any clinician or mental health practitioner needingexpert advice on therapeutic options for any psychiatric disorder.This edition features an additional chapter on the psychiatricinterview and assessment of mental status to increase itsutility.
It echoes the progress in psychiatry regarding the establishmentof an evidenced-based model of taxonomy, diagnosis, etiology, andtreatment. Indeed, from a psychologist's perspective, the equalconsideration provided to empirically supported psychosocialtreatments versus somatic treatment is a significant development inthe field of psychiatry.
Jonathan Weinand in PsycCritiques, the American PsychologicalAssociation Review of Books
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"In my opinion, this book would be worth borrowing from the library in order to read specific chapters of interest; perhaps, the common mental health conditions or a rarity recently encountered in clinic." (Occupational Medicine, 8 March 2011)
"The main addition to this edition is a useful introductory chapter on the psychiatric interview, with comments on "compiling the psychiatric database" (which seems to be what used to be called the patient's notes). I was also glad to see rather more mentions of evidence-supported psychological therapies in among the recommended drug treatments than in the previous edition." (Journal of Mental Health, August 2010)
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