Kaplan & Sadock’s Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry

Description:

Completely revised to bring you up to date with current DSM-5 classifications, new medications, and more, Kaplan & Sadock’s Pocket Handbook of Clinical Psychiatry, Sixth Edition, is a concise, easy-to-use guide to diagnosing the full range of psychiatric disorders in both adults and children. Brief summaries of psychiatric disorders include key aspects of etiology, epidemiology, clinical features, and suggestions for treatment. It’s an ideal ready reference for psychiatrists and other physicians, medical students on psychiatric rotations, psychiatric residents, and mental health professionals in psychology, social work, and nursing.

Table of Contents:

1. Classification in Psychiatry

2. Psychiatric History and Mental Status Examination

3. Medical Assessment and Laboratory Testing in Psychiatry

4. Brain Imaging

5. Major Neurocognitive Disorders

6. Major or Minor Neurocognitive Disorder Due to Another Medical Condition (Amnestic Disorder)

7. Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition

8. Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

9. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

10. Schizophreniform, Schizoaffective, Delusional, and Other Psychotic Disorders

11. Mood Disorders

12. Anxiety Disorders

13. Obsessive–Compulsive and Related Disorders

14. Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders

15. Dissociative Disorders

16. Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

17. Personality Disorders

18. Sexual Dysfunction and Gender Dysphoria

19. Feeding and Eating Disorders

20. Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

21. Normal Sleep and Sleep–Wake Disorders

22. Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders

23. Psychosomatic Medicine

24. Suicide, Violence, and Emergency Psychiatric Medicine

25. Child Psychiatry

26. Geriatric Psychiatry

27. End-of-Life Care Issues

28. Psychotherapies

29. Psychopharmacological Treatment and Nutritional Supplements

30. Brain Stimulation Therapies

31. Forensic Psychiatry and Ethics in Psychiatry

32. Medication-Induced Movement Disorders

Glossary of Signs and Symptoms

Index

About the Authors