What Every Patient, Family, Friend, and Caregiver Needs to Know About Psychiatry, Second Edition
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781585627509
Subjects: Psychiatry; Consumer education
Description: Aimed at patients and caregivers this volume provides clear, in-depth advice on understanding and dealing with stress and difficult patient behaviors. It covers such topics as heredity's role in alcohol and drug dependency, marital troubles, psychiatric problems common among the elderly, stress management, and emotional illness versus mental illness.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Toccontents; About the Author; Introduction; Part I: Background and Normal Variations in Stress; Ch1 A Day at the Office; Ch2 Normal Development and the Life Cycle; Ch3 Heredity, Parenting, and Society; Ch4 Stress and Common Emotional Reactions; Ch5 Managing Stress; Part Ii: How Emotional Illness Differs From Mental Illness; Ch6 Adjustment Disorders and Psychosomatic Disorders; Ch7 Anxiety Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, and Dissociative Disorders; Ch8 Alcoholism and Drug Abuse; Ch9 Sexual Problems in Our Culture; Ch10 Eating Disorders; Ch11 The Emotional Effects of Loss.; title: Ch12 Personality DisordersCh13 Unusual Psychiatric Disorders; Part Iii: Mental Illness: The Psychoses; Ch14 Mood Disorders: Depression and Manic States; Ch15 Schizophrenia; Ch16 Other Psychotic Disorders; Ch17 Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders; Part Iv: Treatment of Emotional and Mental Illnesses; Ch18 How a Psychiatrist Helps; Ch19 Psychotherapy: Who, What, When, and How?; Conclusion; Suggested Readings; Idxindex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.