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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.

This remarkable work presents the nuts and bolts of incorporating culture into therapy in a way that is immediately useful and practical. Illustrated by numerous case studies that demonstrate issues, techniques, and recommendations, this volume focuses not on specific race or ethnicity but instead on culture.

This practical volume brings together distinguished clinicians and policymakers who focus on the operational aspects of developing state-of-the-art integrated delivery systems, from concept and structural foundations to critical administrative and management structures.

Melatonin in Psychiatric and Neoplastic Disorders provides psychiatrists, oncologists, endocrinologists, pediatricians, and other health professionals with a thorough examination of the most current research on the role of melatonin in psychiatric and neoplastic disorders.

This volume summarizes the significant events and processes of the half-century following World War II. Most of this history is written by clinicians who were central figures in it.

Dr. Morain's remarkable psychological study of Joseph Smith, Jr. will be of interest to a wide spectrum of readers-as a social history, religious biography, an account of the dissociative elements in poetic and spiritual genius, or simply a gripping portrait of an ill-fated and tragic man.

Covering both the ChIPS and P-ChIPS, the booklet presents background information about the interview's development, detailed instructions for conducting the interview and recording its results, explicit criteria for assessing interviewee responses, complete specifications for preparing mental health paraprofessionals to administer the interview.

The book compiles the results of several research studies on this subject. It discusses important developments in interpersonal psychotherapy research and its translation into clinical practice. It describes typical phases of treatments and highlights applications for patient populations, which have seen results from interpersonal psychotherapy.

Risk Factors for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder assembles almost 20 experts to examine the latest research on this topic. This book discusses strategies for assessing risk and compiles findings from several studies for identifying risk factors related to demographic, environmental, genetic, and biological factors.

Throughout history, people have invented many different ways to inflict direct and deliberate physical injury on themselves - without an intent to die. Even today, the concept and practice of self-injury is sanctioned by some cultures, although condemned by most. This insightful work fills a gap in the literature on pathologic self-injury.

This book lays the traditional diagnostic oversimplification of schizophrenia to rest once and for all. The editors of this groundbreaking work challenge the reductionist view of schizophrenia as a single unitary disorder-a view that has led many psychiatrists and mental health care professionals to overlook potentially important syndromes.

This is a comprehensive guide to assessment, management, understanding, and treatment of violent patients. The first section encompasses practical guides to treatment for both children and adults. The second section delves into a more conceptual and broadly focused approach to understanding violent patients.

At long last, a book devoted exclusively to the dilemma of physician sexual misconduct. Physician Sexual Misconduct results from years of work with physicians guilty of sexual misconduct and the patients they mistreated. With this comprehensive reference tool, users will come closer to understanding and preventing incidents of this unprofessional behaviour.

This is an overview of narcissistic pathology and narcissistic disorders to date. Combining the latest empirical evidence, clinical diagnostic observations, and advances in treatment, this volume addresses important subjects at the forefront of the study of narcissism.

This guide that can help you and your partner build a lasting, healthy relationship while easing tensions and resolving troublesome issues. The author examines common difficulties and how these difficulties can affect your marriage. He offers advice and guidance on how you can resolve these problems while enhancing communication with your spouse.

The book combines cultural anthropology, cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, and the study of psychosomatic illness to present the information on the dissociative process. Experts in each of these fields bring their knowledge on the unique role that dissociation plays in moderating social and psychological effects on the body.

This volume examines those aspects of the unconscious mind most relevant to the psychiatric practitioner, including unconscious processing of affective and traumatic experience, unconscious mechanisms in dissociative states and disorders, and cognitive approaches to dreaming and repression.

Alternatives to the Hospital for Acute Psychiatric Care describes various cost-effective alternatives to psychiatric hospital care and provides specific details for mental health administrators to evaluate the usefulness and feasibility of the various models for their own mental health care setting.

Experts in the field offer balanced, carefully considered advice on approaches therapists can use when patients report they have experienced ritual abuse. These qualified clinicians explain and demonstrate their techniques and offer caveats against accepting a patient's recollections at face value.

This book is a collection of writings on how society has stigmatized mentally ill persons, their families, and their caregivers. First-hand accounts poignantly portray what it is like to be the victim of stigma and mental illness. It also presents historical, societal, and institutional viewpoints that underscore the devastating effects of stigma.

Questions are succinct, simply worded, and easily understood. Practitioners have already found ChIPS indispensable in screening for conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, substance abuse, phobias, anxiety disorders, stress disorders, eating disorders, mood disorders, elimination disorders, and schizophrenia.

This text offers a comprehensive introduction to molecular biology, genetics, and neurobiology relevant to psychiatry. Generously illustrated chapters are organized to be read at both an introductory and a more advanced level.

Presents data on - and clinical, ethical, and medicolegal issues pertaining to - sexual intimacy in the professional relationship. Contributors (including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clergy, and attorneys) explore the issue of professional incest across the broad spectrum of the helping professions.