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Psychiatric Genetics: Applications in Clinical Practice

American Psychiatric Publishing, 2008

Psychiatric Genetics is the first book to focus on clinical applications of genetics in psychiatry. It covers issues involved in genetic counseling, the interpretation of familial and genetic information for clinical use, information regarding risks associated with specific psychiatric disorders, and the uses of genetic testing. Written...

Handbook of School Mental Health: Research, Training, Practice, and Policy (Issues in Clinical Child Psychology)

Springer, 2013

With so few therapeutic outlets readily available to young people, schools have evolved into mental health centers for many students. Yet schools are hampered by limited access to resources needed to provide mental health promotion, prevention, and intervention services.

Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of the...

Social Work Practice in the Addictions (Contemporary Social Work Practice)

Springer, 2012

Social workers represent the largest body of addiction and mental health service providers, and there is a consistent need for up-to-date information. Social Work Practice in the Addictions is a comprehensive evidence-based volume. Contributing authors of this volume have been carefully selected to ensure representation of the leading social...

Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Frontier in Psychiatry

Springer, 2012

Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Frontier in Psychiatry provides an overview of current developments and the future possibilities of deep brain stimulation for patients with therapy-refractory psychiatric disorders. The side-by-side presentation of clinical applications and animal research provides a truly translational approach. Also...

Cytokines: Stress and Immunity, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2006

Cytokine involvement in the immune system's response to stress is now very well documented. Cytokine activity has been implicated in a variety of mental and physical diseases, and has been shown to have a significant role in fueling the vicious circle of depression and illness.

The first edition of Cytokines: Stress and...

Endings and Beginnings, Second Edition: On terminating psychotherapy and psychoanalysis

Routledge, 2013

In this second edition of Endings & Beginnings (Routledge, 2006), Herbert J. Schlesinger explores endings and beginnings within psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy; both the obvious main endings and beginnings of any course in treatment, and the many little endings and beginnings that permeate analysis. The...

Blueprints Psychiatry (Blueprints Series)

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003

More than just Board review for USMLE, Steps 2 & 3, Blueprints can help you during clerkship rotations and subinternship. They are especially helpful when studying areas outside your specialty. Physician assistants, nurse practitioners and osteopaths find Blueprints a helpful companion to their study materials as well....

Clinical Textbook of Addictive Disorders, Third Edition

The Guilford Press, 2005

This authoritative work comprehensively examines all aspects of addictive disorders and their treatment. Leading researchers and practitioners identify best practices in assessment and diagnosis and provide tools for working with users of specific substances. Issues in working...

What If Medicine Disappeared?

University of New York, 2008

I was trying to imagine what the world would look like without Western medicine. Gone would be primary care physicians, surgeons, psychiatry—all the various medical specialties. There would be no treatment for trauma, nor fractures. Sufferers from the common cold would need to recover without their physician’s help. There would be...

Computers in Psychiatry

RCPsych Publications, 2006

At its heart, a psychiatrists work is about communicating. Failures in communication have led to well-publicised failures in care. The new technologies of communication can hopefully lead to better care. To realise these hopes, however, psychiatrists need a computer book aimed at intelligent professionals, not dummies. This is that book.It differs...

When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

Springer, 2008

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological.

Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring testimony by expert witnesses on recent...

Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment, 2006

McGraw-Hill, 2005

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