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The DSM-5-TR Repositionable Page Markers are designed to help you quickly and easily locate key information within DSM-5-TR. * The clear portion of each marker should be pressed onto the desired page in your manual, with the colored portion of each marker extending past the edge of the manuals page.
DSM5TR® SelfExam Questions: Test Questions for the Diagnostic Criteria elucidates the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision, through selfexam questions designed to test the readers knowledge of the new editions diagnostic criteria.
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 volume gives psychodynamic psychotherapists a view of how their colleagues actually treat severely disturbed borderline patients and how treatments proceed over the course of several years.
By summarizing the empirical studies, proposing a universal language of defense mechanisms, and demonstrating how various assessment methods can be used in diagnosis, case formulation, and treatment, Dr. Vaillant and an interdisciplinary group of contributors provide the groundwork for clinical practice as well as future research in the field.
This volume covers everything from starting a career to measurement and assessment methods, and from statistics to the use of human subjects, as well as related ethics and misconduct issues. Also included is research support -- provides a roadmap for those seeking research support in the U.S., detailing how to write grants from the ground up.
A Psychodynamic Approach to the New Developmental Phase of the 21st Century
What makes an adult? Is it living independently, having a stable career path, getting married, or becoming a parent? In the digital age, particularly in Western societies, such traditional markers have been increasingly postponed and redefined. Thus, the concept of emerging adulthood, first described by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Ph.D., is a period ......
Recent studies suggest that anywhere from 20% to as much as 60% of psychiatric diagnoses are eventually labeled as treatment resistant. No consensus exists on a definition for treatment resistance, nor are there clear criteria for what is still an unrecognized diagnosis, which suggests that incomplete assessments, inadequate treatment planning, ......
How People With Serious Mental Illnesses Get Caught in Misdemeanor Systems
People with serious mental illness (SMI) are prominently and unjustly overrepresented in the criminal legal system. More than one-third—and in some studies more than two-thirds—of those with SMI have a lifetime history of arrest.
