Clinical Psychiatry for Medical Students - Softcover

Stoudemire, Alan

 
9780397584604: Clinical Psychiatry for Medical Students

Inhaltsangabe

Widely used as the core text for psychiatry clerkships and a board review for psychiatry residents, Clinical Psychiatry for Medical Students is now in its revised, updated Third Edition. The text emphasizes the biopsychosocial model as a framework for clinical psychiatry and includes many clinical examples. Current DSM-IV diagnostic categories are used throughout the book. This edition features a new chapter on legal issues in psychiatry and completely rewritten chapters on biopsychosocial assessment and case formulation; delirium, dementia, and other disorders associated with cognitive impairment; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; personality disorders; mood disorders; anxiety disorders; geriatric psychiatry; dissociative disorders; psychiatric disorders of childhood and adolescence; biological therapies for mental disorders; basic principles of pain management; and behavioral medicine strategies for medical patients. This text is particularly effective when used in conjunction with Stoudemire's Human Behavior: An Introduction for Medical Students , also in its newly revised Third Edition

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Críticas

American Journal of Psychiatry -- Praise for previous editions:|"Dr. Stoudemire is to be congratulated for this practical and readable text. It will be easy for the experienced clinician to locate information for a rapid and competent review. Medical students will appreciate the organization that makes it possible to identify highlights and to prepare for the expected examinations." --American Journal of Psychiatry

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Widely used as the core text for psychiatry clerkships and a board review for psychiatry residents, Clinical Psychiatry for Medical Students is now in its revised, updated Third Edition. The text emphasizes the biopsychosocial model as a framework for clinical psychiatry and includes many clinical examples. Current DSM-IV diagnostic categories are used throughout the book. This edition features a new chapter on legal issues in psychiatry and completely rewritten chapters on biopsychosocial assessment and case formulation; delirium, dementia, and other disorders associated with cognitive impairment; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; personality disorders; mood disorders; anxiety disorders; geriatric psychiatry; dissociative disorders; psychiatric disorders of childhood and adolescence; biological therapies for mental disorders; basic principles of pain management; and behavioral medicine strategies for medical patients. This text is particularly effective when used in conjunction with Stoudemire's Human Behavior: An Introduction for Medical Students , also in its newly revised Third Edition

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