Current Diagnosis & Treatment Psychiatry, Second Edition, Paperback

The most accessible, integrated source of clinical psychiatric information--completely updated

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CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, Second Edition is the ultimate reference for quickly answering day-to-day questions on psychiatric illness in both adults and children. Comprehensive in scope, yet streamlined in its coverage, this time-saving clinical companion reviews essential psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic approaches to the full range of psychiatric disorders.

FEATURES

• The most effective interviewing techniques and approaches
• Important evaluation, testing, and decision-making tools and criteria
• Ready-to-use information on psychiatry and the law, psychological testing, emergency psychiatry, evaluating infants, and more
• Authoritative coverage of developmental psychology, neuropsychopharmacology, psychiatric genetics, psychoanalysis, and other related areas
• Helpful section on the principles of evaluating and diagnosing patients, as well as treatment strategies
• Core sections on adult disorders and pediatric psychiatric problems
• NEW Critical updates to key diagnostic, psychopharmacologic, and psychotherapeutic modalities
• NEW Section on psychiatric practice in special settings

Michael H. Ebert, M.D.
Associate Dean for Veterans Affairs and Professor of
Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
Chief of Staff, VA Connecticut Healthcare System
West Haven, CT

Peter T. Loosen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN

Barry Nurcombe, M.D.
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Departments of Pediatric Medicine and Psychiatry and
Neuroscience
University of Western Australia, Perth

Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
University of Queensland, Herston

James F. Leckman, M.D.
Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics,
and Psychology
Director of Research
Yale Child Study Center
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Ct