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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
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Review Quotes: "A convenient, up-to-date, time-saving reference for the diagnosis, psychopharmacologic treatment, and psychotherapeutic management of the full range of psychiatric disorders. Includes a highly useful separate section devoted to psychiatric disorders occurring in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. 3 Stars."--"Doody's Review Service"