Essential Psychopathology Casebook (eBook)

Mark D. Kilgus, William S. Rea (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
648 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-70980-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A problem-based learning casebook, keyed to the newly released DSM-V.The clinical cases in this book are about real people suffering from psychopathology. Reviewing these cases will allow the early clinician to learn by observing the decision-making process of experienced clinicians. Reading this book is as close to a real-life experience as a reader can have without a patient in front of them.Each chapter is consistently organized to answer these central questions concerning clinical presentation: functional impairment; DSM diagnosis (keyed to DSM-V); epidemiology; differential diagnosis; etiology and pathogenesis; natural course without treatment; evidence-based bio-psycho-socio-spiritual treatment options; clinical course with management and treatment; systems-based practice issues; and legal, ethical, and cultural challenges.Designed as a clinical companion to the bestselling text, Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment: Third Edition, this books important lessons can also be learned by reading it as a stand-alone text.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 2 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• ISBN-10: 0-393-70980-9 / 0393709809
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-70980-3 / 9780393709803