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Mini-D 5, diagnostiska kriterier enligt DSM-5-TR, ger en välunderbyggd och samlad konsensusbild av aktuell kunskap om de mest framträdande och relevanta symtomen vid de olika formerna av psykiska störningar och sjukdomar. Ett grundsyfte med kriter...

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers....

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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), is the most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers....

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The book reviews the research on mental illness and addictive disorders. Beginning with the magnitude of problem, and presenting major perspectives within the field, this book then examines research progress on the major disorders and special popu...

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The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on the young adult chronic patient.

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The rights of the mental disabled are highlighted in the book.

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The book is a compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on tardive dyskinesia.

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This is a compilation of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on the management of the violent patient.

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A compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry on law and psychiatry. It examines such important issues such as refusing treatment, protecting child witnesses in sexual abuse cases, and housing and the mentally ill.

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A compendium of articles from Hospital and Community Psychiatry. Includes topics such as the myths of mental illness, managing the aggressive patient, and dealing with major mental health issues. Reviews instructional videotapes for use in family ...

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Covers guidlines on confidentiality from the American Psychiatric Association, including confidentiality in special situations, confidentiality and records, confidentiality in special settings and confidentiality and the legal process.

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Since the development of pharmacoconvulsive therapy in 1934 and of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in 1938, ECT has proven far more valuable than just the intervention of last resort. In comparison with psychotropic medications, we now know that E...

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In recent years, patients, lay publications, and consumer groups have expressed concern about whether benzodiazepines are overprescribed. Psychiatrists have raised questions about the potential for these medicationsespecially some of the newer, hi...

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Since the APA's last report on tardive dyskinesia in 1979, considerable research has been conducted on the prevalence, incidence, and risk factors associated with the development of late-occurring neuroleptic side effects. This book summarize...

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This handbook provides clinicians with timely and useful information that will help psychiatrists obtain optimal coverage of services for patients. Among the issues addressed are frequently encountered problems, confidentiality, contracting, and t...

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This task force report from the American Psychiatric Assocation covers clinician safety, including assaults against clinicians, current treatment perspectives to facilitate clinician safety, recommendations to the APA, and brief case reports.

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This book covers the American Journal of Psychiatry from 1844 to 1994.

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The original task force report, completed in the summer of 1994, reflected the current state of addiction treatment and provided recommendations for improving these services in the future. That monograph is reproduced in this book, which accomplis...

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Topics in this volume on sexually dangerous offenders include: epidemiology of sex offenders; sexual predator commitment laws; juvenile sex offenders; and pharmacological treatment of sexual offenders.

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The shifting demographic toward a "graying" populationcoupled with today's reality of managed caremakes the need for high-quality, cost-effective psychiatric services within the nursing care setting more urgent than ever. As we incr...

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The book discusses depression, its symptoms, causes, treatment and phases, medications, and suicide risk. This is a package of 5.

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The past decade has witnessed remarkable growth in the field of quality measurement in health care. Today's patients want to know that the care they receive is safe, effective, and accessible. This compelling monograph combinesfor the fi...

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As the first attempt to synthesize the movement toward widespread implementation of evidence-based mental health practices, this groundbreaking collection articulates the basic tenets of evidence-based medicine and shows how practices proven effec...

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Developed by psychiatrists who are in active clinical practice, this practical guideline offers invaluable information to psychiatrists who care for patients with delirium. It summarizes the current data available on this topic and provides recomm...

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In questions of psychiatric ethics, simple "yes" or "no" answers are rare, yet questions arise frequently in the clinical setting. "Should I accept a patient's invitation to a party?" "Is it OK to tell a pat...

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This practice guideline seeks to summarize data and specific forms of treatment regarding the care of patients with HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this guideline is to assist the psychiatrist in caring for a patient with HIV/AIDS by reviewing the treatm...

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The most common personality disorder here and abroad, borderline personality disorder is often misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed. Left untreated, it causes marked distress and impairment in social, occupational, and role functioning, with high rates ...

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This volume contains guidelines by the American Psychiatric Association on the treatment of bipolar disorder. It is a supplement to the American Journal of Psychiatry.

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This book contains Quick Reference Guides (QRGs) to all of the published APA Practice Guidelines. QRGs are created by abstracting the crucial information from the text of the full guideline, with greatest emphasis placed on retaining the material ...

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The American Psychiatric Association practice guidelines provide recommendations to help psychiatrists and other physicians make treatment decisions that are supported by the best available evidence. The Pocket Guideline for the Assessment and Tre...

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