Selecting Effective Treatments: A Comprehensive, Systematic Guide to Treating Mental Disorders (5版)

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【簡介】 The bestselling treatment guide, updated to reflect changes to the DSM-5Selecting Effective Treatmentsprovides a comprehensive resource for clinicians seeking to understand the symptoms and dynamics of mental disorders, in order to provide a range of treatment options based on empirically effective approaches. This new fifth edition has been updated to align with the latest changes to the DSM-5, and covers the latest research to help you draw upon your own therapeutic preferences while constructing an evidence-based treatment plan. Organized for quick navigation, each disorder is detailed following the same format that covers a description, characteristics, assessment tools, effective treatment options, and prognosis, including the type of therapy that is likely to be most successful treating each specific disorder. Updated case studies, treatments, and references clarify the latest DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, and the concise, jargon-free style makes this resource valuable to practitioners, students, and lay people alike. Planning treatment can be the most complicated part of a clinician's job. Mental disorders can be complex, and keeping up with the latest findings and treatment options can itself be a full time job. Selecting Effective Treatments helps simplify and organize the treatment planning process by putting critical information and useful planning strategies at your fingertips Get up to speed on the latest changes to the DSM-5Conduct evidence-based treatment suited to your therapeutic styleConstruct Client Maps to flesh out comprehensive treatment plansUtilize assessment methods that reflect the changes to the DSM-5 multiaxial systemEffective treatment begins with strategic planning, and it's important to match the intervention to your own strengths, preferences, and style as much as to the client's needs. Selecting Effective Treatments gives you the latest information and crucial background you need to provide the evidence-backed interventions your clients deserve.

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【簡介】 重量：0.38 kg 　頁數：174 裝訂：平裝　開數：24.4 x 17 cm　印刷：雙色 Meet the challenges of mental health prescribing in the physically unwell with this essential guide Treating mental health conditions in physically unwell patients presents unique challenges for clinicians and other practitioners. The efficacy and safety of psychotropic medications is established in physically healthy patients. In physically unwell people, psychotropics can have different outcomes and give rise to serious adverse effects that can complicate or worsen physical health conditions. Many clinicians face difficult decisions about prescribing for mental health conditions in such cases, and reliable information for them is scarce. The Maudsley® Prescribing Guidelines for Mental Health Conditions in Physical Illness meets this urgent need with a comprehensive guide to the safe and effective pharmacological management of mental illness in physically unwell patients. Covering a wide range of physical health conditions and comorbidities, the book makes evidence-based recommendations on pharmacological interventions. It’s an essential resource for any clinical practitioner looking to balance the physical and mental wellbeing of people with concurrent physical and mental health conditions. The Maudsley® Prescribing Guidelines for Mental Health Conditions in Physical Illness readers will also find: Prescribing recommendations for mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, psychosis and bipolar affective disorder Detailed discussion of the consequences for mental health prescribing in physical health conditions such as cardiac disease, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and many more Treatment of complex and frequently encountered clinical scenarios such as restarting psychotropics after overdose and steroid-induced psychiatric conditions The Maudsley® Prescribing Guidelines for Mental Health Conditions in Physical Illness is an essential reference for all prescribers, clinical pharmacists and nurses who work with patients with comorbid mental and physical illnesses.

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This volume contains up-to-date contributions written by leading experts in the role played by various microorganisms in psychiatric and neurological illness. The initial chapters present an evolutionary framework for the impact of microorganisms on behavior. This is followed by historical and epidemiological perspectives of the role of viruses in psychiatric illness. Subsequent chapters focus on different classes of microorganisms and psychiatric illnesses and emphasize diverse research approaches ranging from preclinical models to therapeutic interventions.