American Psychiatric Association Publishing is the world’s premier publisher of books, journals, and multimedia on psychiatry, mental health, and behavioural science. We offer authoritative, up-to-date, and affordable information geared toward psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students, and the general public.
APA Publishing is a division of the American Psychiatric Association. Its purpose is twofold: to serve as the distributor of publications of the Association and to publish books independent of the policies and procedures of the American Psychiatric Association. APA Publishing has grown since its founding in 1981 into a full-service publishing house, including a staff of editorial, production, marketing, and business experts devoted to publishing for the field of psychiatry and mental health.
Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults
The only book that covers the multiple ways in which ADHD is complicated by other psychiatric and learning disorders in both children and adults, ADHD Comorbidities: Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults features comprehensive, research-based information on ADHD and its full range of coexisting syndromes.
This concise, yet comprehensive guide distills the most critical and current information on diagnosis and treatment so that residents and other beginning clinicians will have the tools they need to quickly assess and competently treat patients with psychiatric illnesses.
The Casebook of Psychosomatic Medicine brings to life the patients whom psychosomatic medicine serves and the variety of challenges they face -- classic psyche--soma involvement; psychotic attributions to physical illness; catastrophic events and injuries; major systemic medical challenges with comorbid psychopathology; and more.
The Clinical Manual for Evaluation and Treatment of Sleep Disorders is both comprehensive and conveniently portable. The book's 13 chapters offer a step-by-step method of differential diagnosis for some of the most common sleep complaints encountered in today's professional clinical practice.
The Clinical Manual of Drug Interaction Principles for Medical Practice is an exceptionally practical, thoroughly up-to-date resource to help psychiatric clinicians understand and avoid potentially dangerous interactions and provide the highest standard of patient care.
This guide to the assessment and management of patients with bipolar disorder can help physicians keep abreast of dramatic and rapid advances of recent years and integrate them into their practice. This book emphasizes recent controlled studies and FDA--approved indications and translates these data into the real world of clinical practice.
Cognitive Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder is the first comprehensive book of its kind. it compiles the latest data in neuropsychology, neuroimaging, neurogenetics, and functional outcomes research to enable clinicians to more effectively utilize pharmacological and psychotherapeutic techniques in their treatment of bipolar disorder.
Mental health professionals will find this book to be timely and necessary -- for their patients, but also for the families and communities who rely on their professional judgment in assessing and managing potentially violent individuals. The editors lend the breadth and depth of their experience to this volume.
As Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association from 1974 to 1997, Melvin Sabshin, M.D., brings a unique perspective on the history of post--World War II psychiatry to Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective.
