UID:
almahu_9948025680002882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 729 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
Sixth edition
ISBN:
1-4557-1131-4
Content:
Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, by Theodore A. Stern, Gregory L. Fricchione, Ned H. Cassem, Michael Jellinek, and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, is your ideal source of guidance on consultation-liaison psychiatry! Experts from the Massachusetts General Hospital-widely respected as one of the world's premier psychiatric institutions-provide practical advice on the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric issues experienced by in-hospital, medically ill adults and children. This compact resource reads like a handbook, but delivers all the details you₂d expect from a textbook. Understand and manage the psychological impact of chronic medical problems, life-threatening diseases, disfigurement, and more. Effectively manage difficult patients, including those with hypochondriacal and conversion disorders.
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"Expert Consult."--Cover.
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Beginnings: psychosomatic medicine and consultation psychiatry in the general hospital /
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Approach to consultation psychiatry: assessment strategies /
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The doctor-patient relationship /
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The psychiatric interview /
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Functional neuroanatomy and the neurologic examination /
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Limbic music /
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Psychological and neuropsychological assessment /
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Diagnostic rating scales and laboratory tests /
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Mood-disordered patients /
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Delirious patients /
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Demented patients /
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Psychotic patients /
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Anxious patients /
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Alcoholic patients: acute and chronic /
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Drug-addicted patients /
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Functional somatic symptoms, deception syndromes, and somatoform disorders /
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Patients with an eating disorder /
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Pain patients /
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Patients with neurologic conditions I. /
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Patients with neurologic conditions II. /
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Catatonia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and serotonin syndrome /
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Patients with disordered sleep /
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The psychiatric management of patients with cardiac disease /
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Sexual disorders and sexual dysfunction /
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Organ failure and transplantation /
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Patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome /
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Patients with cancer /
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Burn patients /
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Chronic medical illness and rehabilitation /
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Intensive care unit patients /
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Genetics and psychiatry /
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Coping with illness and psychotherapy of the medically ill /
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Electroconculsive therapy in the general hospital /
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Psychopharmacology in the medical setting /
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Psychopharmacological management of children and adolescents /
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Behavioral medicine /
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Complementary medicine and natural medications /
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Difficult patients /
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Emergency psychiatry /
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Care of the suicidal patient /
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Care at the end of life /
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Pediatric consultation /
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Consultation to parents with serious medical illness: parenting at a challenging time /
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Care of the geriatric patient /
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Aggressive and impulsive patients /
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Psychiatric illness during pregnancy and the postpartum period /
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Culture and psychiatry /
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Legal aspects of consultation /
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Collaborative care: psychiatry and primary care /
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Coping with the rigors of psychiatric practice /
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Billing, documentation, and cost-effectiveness of consultation /
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Quality assurance and quality improvement on a psychiatric consultation service /
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Psychiatric research in the general hospital /
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Medical psychiatry and its future /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4377-1927-9
Language:
English
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