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Good Psychiatric Management and Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Good Psychiatric Management and Dialectical Behavior Therapy: A Clinician's Guide to Integration and Stepped Care presents a unique approach to treating borderline personality disorder (BPD). The approach, known as good psychiatric management (GPM), ...

Social (In)Justice and Mental Health

Social (In)Justice and Mental Health introduces readers to the concept of social justice and the outsized, but often ignored, role that social injustice plays in the identification, diagnosis, and management of mental illnesses and substance use ...

Infanticide and Filicide

When a mother kills her child, it breaks a cardinal rule that violates the natural course of life—that is, the maternal instinct to safeguard the survival of her young. The trials of Andrea Yates in 2002 and 2006 for the drowning of her five children in ...

Seeking Value

The U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world by a considerable margin, yet health indicators are among the worst in the developed world. Seeking Value: Balancing Cost and Quality in Psychiatric Care, a comprehensive volume by the Group ...

Tipping the Scales: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Managing Severe Eating Disorders

Treatment advances, both medical and psychological, have increased what can be done for patients with severe eating disorders, but answers to what should be done remain elusive. For this reason, Tipping the Scales: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Managing ...

Treatment of Psychological Distress in Parents of Premature Infants

A preterm birth and its upending of expectations of a "normal" pregnancy and the birth experience can lead to very real psychological consequences for parents.This volume delves into recent findings on the psychological effects of premature birth on ...

Nature and Nurture in Mental Disorders

Nature or nurture? The debate has raged for decades in clinical psychiatry. In this extensively revised, second edition of Nature and Nurture in Mental Disorders, Joel Paris, MD, argues that the dichotomy is not just unhelpful but unnecessary altogether....

Clinical Sleep Medicine

More than two dozen national and international experts contribute their insights to Clinical Sleep Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide for Mental Health and Other Medical Professionals. Intentionally designed to be an easily portable resource, this guide ...

Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes

Nearly 20 years after publication of the groundbreaking Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes comes this second, thoroughly revised and altogether timely edition. The current pandemic and worldwide economic crisis are but the latest challenges to global ...

Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking: A Treatment Guide for Mental Health Professionals is an educational and clinical resource for health care practitioners from any discipline who may encounter sex- or labor-trafficked persons. The book's editors direct the Baylor College ...

Rational Psychopharmacology

The first book of its kind, Rational Psychopharmacology: A Book of Clinical Skills teaches the reader how to think thoroughly and methodically when assessing a patient, reviewing research data (both basic and clinical), and developing and evaluating ...

Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health

The innovative and informative Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health builds on the work of two groundbreaking American Psychiatric Association Publishing texts, The LGBT Casebook and Transgender Mental Health. Reflecting sweeping changes in our ...

The Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Refugees

Written by psychiatrists for psychiatrists, The Psychiatric Evaluation and Treatment of Refugees is being published at a time when the refugee population is growing and immigration is among the most challenging global health concerns. The situation at the ...

The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Anxiety, Trauma, and OCD-Related Disorders

The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Anxiety, Trauma, and OCD-Related Disorders supersedes the Textbook of Anxiety Disorders, released more than a decade ago, and is the first edition to be written in the context of DSM-5, a fact ...

A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Advocacy

A Psychiatrist's Guide to Advocacy is both a scholarly text and a handbook—a uniquely inspiring work that considers health advocacy as the public voicing of support for causes, policies, or opinions that advance patient and population health. Since the ...

Professional Well-Being

Physician self-care is correlated with patient care; a growing body of evidence supports this. Yet, a culture persists within medicine that values overwork, perfectionism, and self-sacrifice, often to the detriment of clinicians themselves. Professional ...

Handbook of Medicine in Psychiatry

This updated, third edition of the Handbook of Medicine in Psychiatry has been streamlined to provide a pragmatic approach to the realities confronting clinicians in today's busy inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings. Each chapter features one or ...

Textbook of Medical Psychiatry

The Textbook of Medical Psychiatry focuses on medical disorders that can directly cause or affect the clinical presentation and course of psychiatric disorders. Clinicians who work primarily in psychiatric settings, as well as those who practice in ...

The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia

The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia, Second Edition, is an invaluable single source for the latest scholarship and clinical knowledge about schizophrenia. Progress since the last edition, published more than a decade ...

Physician Well-Being

The figures are stark: 10–15 years after entering medical school, the average physician has twice the level of burnout of the average professional. Suicide rates among physicians are 1.4 and 2 times higher than in the general population for men and women, ...

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