Un clinicien ne peut oublier l'importance du jugement clinique quand il s'agit d'évaluer un patient. Cet ouvrage, issu de l'expérience et de la pratique de 135 praticiens sélectionnés pour leur expertise dans les catégories diagnostiques décrites dans le cas spécifique, est destiné à accompagner le Manuel diagnostique etstatistique des troubles mentaux, texte révisé (DSM-5-TR). Il clarifie et discute le diagnostic psychiatrique en soulignant les évolutions depuis le DSM-5. L'ouvrage présen...

Un clinicien ne peut oublier l'importance du jugement clinique quand il s'agit d'évaluer un patient. Cet ouvrage, issu de l'expérience et de la pratique de plus de 100 praticiens, est destiné à accompagner le Manuel diagnostique et statistique des troubles mentaux (DSM-5). Il présente 103 cas cliniques réels qui permettent de développer le jugement clinique et de l'appliquer à la complexité de la situation individuelle. Les cas sont regroupés pour correspondre aux catégories diagnostiques ...

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that “death anxiety” is responsible for the American society’s failure to address costly futile care at the end of life; more specifically, doctors default on the appropriate prescription of palliative care because of this anxiety. This leads to unnecessary suffering for terminally-ill patients and their families and significant distress for physicians. To address these challenges...

Self-injurious behavior occurs in almost half of those with autism and is one of the most devastating and challenging-to-treat behaviors. There are many different forms of self-injury, such as head banging, hand biting, hair pulling, excessive scratching, and much more. With contributions from the leading experts in research and treatment, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of self-injurious behavior (SIB) in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or related developmental disab...

DSM-5-TR Clinical Cases presents patient cases that exemplify the mental disorders categorized in DSM-5-TR, bringing DSM-5-TR alive for teachers and students of psychiatry, psychology, social work, nursing, and related mental health and healthcare fields. With chapters that correspond to the main DSM-5-TR diagnostic categories (i.e., the first 19 chapters in Section II), this book guides the reader through the complexities of clinical assessment and the many types of contextual information...

A fascinating text that addresses the clinical and educational challenges of treating psychiatric patients from a truly multidisciplinary perspective using a case-based format, Approach to the Psychiatric Patient: Case-Based Essays is the only book of its kind and an indispensable addition to the mental health practitioner's library. The new edition builds upon the strengths that distinguished the first, with composite cases that are carefully constructed to capture real-world problems, fo...

Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way to read, write, understand, and teach literature.The twenty-four original essays here are written by an outstanding selection of international scholars. The range of bioregions covered is ...

Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment provides a clinically detailed, evidence-based, and exhaustive examination of a topic rarely plumbed in psychiatry texts, despite the fact that co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders are common. The authors argue for a more holistic and integrated approach, calling for clinicians to tactfully but persistently evaluate patients for a broad range of co-occurring disorders before deter...