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The book includes 19 seminal, excellent articles published between 1959 and 1979 selected for inclusion here by the American Psychosomatic Society Publications Committee. These articles were chosen based on their merit, importance for the field, and excellent argumentation and because they are a springboard to further research.
Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Managing Severe Eating Disorders
Unlike patients with other mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia or bipolar illness, for whom a medical physician rarely needs to be involved in care delivery, patients with eating disorders have a litany of significant medical complications that demand close oversight by a medical doctor knowledgeable in treating these disorders. ......
The book provides new and experienced clinicians with generic models for the development of efficient and effective interactive groups able to deliver a wide variety of treatment options. It offers a comprehensive examination of the potential of group psychotherapy and an appreciation of time management in its utilization.
Early assessments of medical errors frequently focused on deficiencies in procedures and systems, yet research shows that 75% of those errors are individual and cognitive.
The Psychology of Psychopharmacology With Diverse Youth and Families
Our remedies are only largely as good as the way in which we dispense them. Thats the central premise of Thinking About Prescribing, a new volume that encourages psychopharmacotherapists to view the prescribing of a medication to young patients not as the beginning of the end of a therapeutic conversation
The Sword of Laban examines the Mormon prophet's enigmatic life in light of current understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder and the dissociation that accompanies it. Dr. Morain traces the repetitive patterns of behavior and fantasies of Smith's adult life.
Factitious disorder presents one of the most challenging variants of psychopathology in medicine. The book is the first for professionals to offer a comprehensive overview of current thinking about patients who feign or induce illness -- in themselves or others -- to accrue the intangible benefits of the "sick" role.
The book provides a foundation of knowledge on the social and environmental underpinnings of mental health and mental illnesses for clinical and policy decision making, with a goal to improve the mental health of individuals across diverse communities and the mental health of the nation.
