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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Psychiatric symptoms rarely arrive in neat diagnostic categories.Depression may conceal bipolar disorder. Hallucinations may arise from psychosis, substance exposure, delirium, neurological disease, or a medical condition. Agitation may represent mania, intoxication, withdrawal, fear, cognitive impairment, or an immediate emergency.Psychiatry: Principles, Diagnosis, Clinical Practice and Decision-Making teaches readers how to approach that complexity with structured clinical reasoning.This comprehensive 500+ page textbook connects psychiatric knowledge with the decisions clinicians and trainees must make: What syndrome is present What dangerous condition must be excluded Which diagnosis best explains the presentation What treatment, disposition, monitoring, and follow-up are appropriate Develop a systematic approach to: - Psychiatric interviewing and the mental status examination- Risk assessment, clinical formulation, and differential diagnosis- Medical, neurological, medication-related, and substance-related mimics- Depressive, bipolar, psychotic, anxiety, trauma-related, obsessive-compulsive, personality, eating, substance-use, neurodevelopmental, and neurocognitive disorders- Psychopharmacology, adverse effects, interactions, monitoring, and treatment resistance- Psychotherapy, behavioral interventions, and recovery-oriented care- Suicidality, agitation, delirium, catatonia, intoxication, withdrawal, and psychiatric emergencies- Special considerations across childhood, pregnancy, adulthood, and later lifeThe signature REED Psychiatric Reasoning Framework-Recognize, Exclude, Establish, Decide, and Reassess-provides a repeatable structure for moving from presentation to a defensible working diagnosis and practical treatment plan.Built for active clinical learningCases, diagnostic comparisons, medical-mimic warnings, clinical pearls, treatment pathways, medication guidance, review questions, and rapid-reference sections transform complex material into usable clinical knowledge.Designed for medical students, psychiatry residents, physicians, mental-health nurses, psychology trainees, and healthcare professionals seeking a structured clinical psychiatry reference.Move beyond memorizing diagnostic labels. Learn how to reason from symptoms, exclude dangerous alternatives, formulate the case, and decide what should happen next. …