CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Psychiatry, Second Edition

The most accessible, integrated source of clinical psychiatric information--completely updated!CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, Second Editionis 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

Michael H. Ebert, M.D.
.Associate Dean for Veterans Affairs and Professor of
.Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
.Chief of Staff, VA Connecticut Healthcare System
.West Haven, CT

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Peter T. Loosen, M.D., Ph.D.
.Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
.Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
.Nashville, TN

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Barry Nurcombe, M.D.
.Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
.Departments of Pediatric Medicine and Psychiatry and
.Neuroscience
.University of Western Australia, Perth

.Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry
.University of Queensland, Herston

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James F. Leckman, M.D.
.Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics,
and Psychology
.Director of Research
.Yale Child Study Center
.Yale University School of Medicine
.New Haven, Ct

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