Authors:Stanley I. Greenspan, Serena Wieder,
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Keywords: approach, assessment, intervention, developmental, comprehensive, childhood, mental, health, infant
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2005-10
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 1585621641
ISBN-13: 9781585621644

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: A Comprehensive Developmental Approach to Assessment and Intervention redefines how we work with infants, young children, and their families when mental health, developmental, or learning problems occur. The authors, who are recognized as the world’s foremost authorities on clinical work with emotional and developmental challenges in the early years of life, demonstrate how to use their well-established and documented DIR (Developmental, Individual-Differences, Relationship-Based) model to work with the full range of infant and early childhoo

Authors:W. E. Narrow, W. E. Narrow,
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association
Keywords: agenda, dsm, research, diagnosis, considerations, psychiatric, gender
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2007-10-05
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0890422958
ISBN-13: 9780890422953

Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research to fill these gaps, Age and Gender Considerations in Psychiatric Diagnosis serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force and its disorder-specific workgroups, and a long-term guide for future studies that will contribute to revised psychiatric classifications in these areas. Here, 47 experts present findings in three previously neglected areas of psychiatric research: significant gender differences in prevalence, symptom profile

Author: Ethel Spector Person
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: romantic, passion, power, encounters, love, fateful, dreams
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 1585622400
ISBN-13: 9781585622405

This groundbreaking study has been widely hailed for its focus on a human emotion generally considered impervious to rational analysis: romantic, passionate love. Ethel Person views romantic love as a powerful agent of change, arguing that it is as central to human culture as it is to human existence. This new edition of Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters emphasizes the relevance of passion not only to lovers but also to mental health professionals whose patients often enter treatment because of love-related issues--from the inability to love or make a commitment to the peri

Authors:Alan F. Schatzberg, Charles B. Nemeroff,
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: psychopharmacology, textbook, publishing, psychiatric, american
Number of Pages: 1648
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $245.00
ISBN-10: 1585623091
ISBN-13: 9781585623099

"The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology" is now updated to keep you current with the latest research and trends in the field. Covering both basic science and clinical practice, this new edition draws on the talents of 53 new contributors to guarantee fresh, authoritative perspectives on advances in psychiatric drug therapy. Introductory chapters provide a theoretical grounding in clinical applications and include a new chapter on genomics and genetics. The ’Classes of Psychiatric Treatment’ section is a virtual pharmacopoeia, with chapters devoted to spe

Authors:Robin A., M.D. Hurley, Katherine H., Ph.D. Taber,
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: neuroimaging, insights, brain, windows
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-03-15
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 1585623024
ISBN-13: 9781585623020

Windows to the Brain is the only book to synthesize neuroanatomical and imaging research as it pertains to selected neuropsychiatric diseases, containing all of the Windows to the Brain papers published from 1999-2006 in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. They provide a basic understanding of how to apply a variety of imaging techniques to the study of adult neuropsychiatric disease and how to use neuroimaging to assist in diagnostic work-ups for conditions ranging from sleep disorders to epilepsy to borderline personality. Integrated, color-coded graphics present fu

Author: Solomon H. Snyder
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: molecluar, neuroscience, discoveries, groundbreaking, psychiatry, science
Number of Pages: 513
Published: 2008-03-15
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1585622737
ISBN-13: 9781585622733

A pioneer in the identification of receptors for neurotransmitters and drugs and in the explanation of the actions of psychotropic agents, Solomon Snyder has been instrumental in the establishment of modern psychopharmacology.Science and Psychiatry is a collection of some of his best scientific papers from the past forty years, representing important advances in psychopharmacology and molecular biology. Some offer insight into modern neuroscience to help make sense of available psychotropic medications and point the way toward more effective and safer agents; others describe the underpinnings

Author: Robert Paul Liberman
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: rehabilitation, psychiatric, manuel, disability, recovery
Number of Pages: 628
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1585622052
ISBN-13: 9781585622054

Recovery From Disability draws on Dr. Robert Paul Liberman s 40 years of designing, testing, and disseminating innovative treatments for persons with mental health disabilities. The author addresses the real challenges faced by practitioners who must wrestle with the individualized needs of each patient in drawing up a rehabilitation roadmap to recovery. Written as a clinical manual with minimal jargon for everyday use by all mental health professionals, the book is brimming with clear advice and ideas for effective services. Each chapter contains information, techniques, and treatment met