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The Burdens of Mental Disorders
The largest and most comprehensive assessment of the burden of disease associated with common mental disorders worldwide.
Psychiatric Dimensions of Medical Practice
In this book, Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., offers a concise guide that will help primary-care physicians evaluate and treat patients who are delirious, demoralized, thinking of suicide, or refusing to follow medical advice. Although these patients exhibit emotional distress, cognitive disturbance, or maladaptive behavior, the cause of the problem is often their medical illness and treatment. For that reason, many such patients can receive excellent care from their own physicians—physicians who, given the resistance of managed care companies to specialist referrals, must now bear that responsibility in any event. After an introductory chapter on clinical assessment, ...
The Conceptual Evolution of DSM-5
The Conceptual Evolution of DSM-5 highlights recent advances in our understanding of cross-cutting factors relevant to psychiatric diagnosis and nosology. These include developmental age-related aspects of psychiatric diagnosis and symptom presentation; underlying neuro-circuitry and genetic similarities that may clarify diagnostic boundaries and inform a more etiologically-based taxonomy of disorder categories; and gender/culture-specific influences in the prevalence of and service use for psychiatric disorders. This text also considers the role of disability in the diagnosis of mental disorders and the potential utility of integrating a dimensional approach to psychiatric diagnosis. A powe...
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Crossing the Quality Chasm
Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of perfor...
Mental Disorders in Primary Care
An invaluable guide to psychiatric presentation, diagnosis and treatment in a primary care setting.
Panic Disorder
A comprehensive account of what panic is, where it comes from, and how to treat it. Four sections present a strong phenomenological introduction to panic, its classification, its etiology and treatment models. Offers numerous approaches to treatment--including practical clinical details--with cognitive therapies strongly recommended. Features a wealth of clinical descriptions and case studies.
