This issue of Medical Clinics brings the practicing internist up
to date on the latest approaches in psychiatry. Topics include
collaborative care and consultation, including interviewing,
cultural competence, and enhancing rapport and adherence;
assessments of the risk of suicide or violence in a patient in
crisis; cognitive impairment such as delirium and dementia;
dysregulated mood such as major depression and bipolar disorder;
anxiety disorders such as panic attacks, generalized anxiety,
post-traumatic stress, and obsessions or compulsions;
psychopharmacologic care, including antidepressants,
antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood-stabilizing anticonvulsants, and
natural remedies; non-pharmacological care of patients with
co-morbid medical and psychiatric conditions, including different
types of psychotherapy of the medically ill; substance use and
abuse; treating the patient with multiple physical symptoms or
chronic disease including somatoform disorders, AIDS, cancer,
diabetes, and hypertension; symptoms at the interface of medicine
and psychiatry such as pain, sleep disturbance, gastrointestinal
distress, sexual dysfunction, premenstrual dysphoria, and grief;
informed consent, handling capacity decisions, civil commitment,
boundary issues, and malpractice claims; and an approach to the
patient with organ failure, transplantation and end-of-life
treatment decisions.
General
Imprint: |
WB Saunders
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The Clinics: Internal Medicine |
Release date: |
November 2010 |
First published: |
November 2010 |
Authors: |
Theodore A. Stern
|
Dimensions: |
236 x 160 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4557-0081-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
Other branches of medicine >
Psychiatry
|
LSN: |
1-4557-0081-9 |
Barcode: |
9781455700813 |
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