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As the most comprehensive reference of its type available, this textbook addresses general principles in evaluation and management (including legal and ethical issues); psychiatric symptoms and disorders in the medically ill; psychological and social aspects of diseases affecting the various organ systems; and psychiatric interventions for this ......
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in Personality Disorders
In this important new volume, Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College, offers an updated vision of psychoanalytic object relations theory, revealing its application to transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), a treatment approach derived from, and related to, psychoanalysis. Collecting previously published articles and new ......
Already a foundational resource in the field, Dulcans Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has been updated in the third edition, including the latest research and clinical advances.
This updated, third edition has been streamlined to provide a pragmatic approach to the realities confronting clinicians in today's busy inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings. Each chapter features one or more clinical vignettes that illustrate the complexity of the presentation of abnormal vital signs and somatic disorders in psychiatric ......
As medical acuity increases and hospital stays shorten, psychiatric consultants must become adept at quickly recognizing neurological disorders comorbid with or manifesting as psychiatric and behavioral symptoms. Neuropsychiatric education has become essential for psychiatric competency.
Understanding the Spectrum of Gender and Sexuality
A down-to-earth, informative, and affirming manual for mental health clinicians working with patients of diverse gender and sexual identities. Each chapter includes straightforward, real-world, and evidence-based answers to ""Questions Well-Meaning People Ask"".
This new edition, accompanied by carefully scripted case vignette videos, is designed to help beginning therapists learn how to build a relationship and establish rapport with psychotherapy patients. It has been thoroughly updated to offer clear and complete coverage of the concept and principles of supportive psychotherapy.
Bridges the gaps between existing trauma manuals and textbooks by giving readers a more complete understanding of the teen's perspective. The book provides concrete strategies for talking to and engaging teens, as well as for finding the most appropriate evidence-based treatment for them.
