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The book is a compendium of articles from Psychiatric Services on issues in community treatment of severe mental illness.

This practice guideline seeks to summarize data and specific forms of treatment regarding the care of patients with HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this guideline is to assist the psychiatrist in caring for a patient with HIV/AIDS by reviewing the treatments that patients with HIV/AIDS may need.

This book presents today's ethical dilemmas regarding boundary violations; children, adolescents, and families; geriatric populations; involuntary hospitalization; managed care; confidentiality; gifts; duty to report colleagues who engage in fraud or deception; emergency care; forensic psychiatry; and consultations and second opinions.

This practical guideline offers invaluable information to psychiatrists who care for patients with delirium. In helping the clinician provide treatments that address the underlying etiology of the delirium, it discusses psychiatric management, environmental and supportive interventions, and specific pharmacologic treatments.

The book discusses depression, its symptoms, causes, treatment and phases, medications, and suicide risk. This is a package of 5.

This is a task force report on dangerous sex offenders.

This task force report from the American Psychiatric Assocation covers clinician safety.

This handbook provides clinicians with timely and useful information that will help psychiatrists obtain optimal coverage of services for patients. Among the issues addressed are frequently encountered problems, confidentiality, contracting, and the process of utilization management.

Benzodiazepine Dependence, Toxicity, and Abuse provides clinicians with a review of the available information on the potential hazards of benzodiazepine treatment and offers suggestions for the rational prescription of these medications.

This covers guidlines on confidentiality from the American Psychiatric Association.

The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry.

This book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on law and psychiatry.

The is a compilation of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on the management of the violent patient.

The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on tardive dyskinesia.

The book reviews the research on mental illness and addictive disorders.

The book is a compendium of articles from Psychiatric Services and Hospital and Community Psychiatry on violent behavior and mental illness.

The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on the young adult chronic patient.

Health Care Reform: A Primer for Psychiatrists is a compilation of resources designed to educate psychiatrists and other mental health professionals about key elements of the reform law. Each article addresses a key question for the organization and financing of mental health and substance abuse care under health care reform.

The rights of the mental disabled are highlighted in the book.

This book stands out because it focuses on the "how"-not the "why"-of nursing home care. Of exceptional importance is its detailed discussion of the Minimum Data Set (MDS), a structured assessment required by both Medicare and Medicaid for all residents of skilled nursing facilities.

This compelling monograph combines-for the first time-the reports from two American Psychiatric Association task forces on quality in psychiatric care, offering a clinical framework for quality measurement that provides sample indicators of quality for health plans, facilities, and systems of care.

As the first attempt to synthesize the movement toward widespread implementation of evidence-based mental health practices, this groundbreaking collection articulates the basic tenets of evidence-based medicine and shows how practices proven effective by clinical services research could improve the lives of many people.