The Casebook of Psychosomatic Medicine brings to life the patients whom psychosomatic medicine serves and the variety of challenges they face -- classic psyche--soma involvement; psychotic attributions to physical illness; catastrophic events and injuries; major systemic medical challenges with comorbid psychopathology; and more.
Written to help identify major gaps in our knowledge of how gender and age affect psychiatric diagnoses and to stimulate much-needed research, this book serves as both a valuable short-term source for the DSM-V Task Force, and a long-term guide for future studies that will contribute to revised psychiatric classifications in these areas.
Handbook and Clinical Interview: For the Assessment of Mental Health Pro
Useful for the assessment of problems in children and adolescents with learning disabilities. This pack contains instructions on the use of the assessment, a semi-structured interview and a clinical glossary. It also contains Score forms designed for use with the ChA-PAS handbook and clinical interview to record the interview scores.
This deeply informative compendium distills the work done from 2002 to late 2005 and concludes with recommendations for developing research activities that will inform DSM-V and future editions of the manual. As such, it will prove invaluable for clinicians and researchers everywhere.
Intended as a support for those who are involved in training Standardized Patients, from the art of coaching through preparing SP's for the physical exam, to encourage each coach to develop a system that will deliver the best results and, in the end, help train the most competent doctors.
A manual for the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs). This edition presents instructions for administering and scoring the forms; a set of normative data and guidelines for using this data; an overview of the CDI-III; information on scanning and automated scoring options; and more.
A Practical Guide for Expert Witnesses and Attorneys
Reviewing the three versions of the MMPI, the research identifying the MMPI's effectiveness and limitations in different kinds of civil and criminal forensic assessments, and the courts' recognition and restriction of MMPI-based testimony, this book provides comprehensive guidance to both novice and experienced professionals.
This work is designed to help mental health graduate students and professionals understand and interpret the MCMI-III. It discusses the design, development and operating characteristics of the inventory, along with the basics of personality theory.
This volume represents a far-reaching attempt to stimulate research and discussion in the field in preparation for the start of the DSM-V process, still several years away, and to integrate information from a wide variety of sources and technologies.
