Psychiatry

Traditionally, criminal profiling texts have focused on the technicalities of conducting an investigation, but recent developments in criminal justice have encouraged greater consideration of related fields.

One of the most challenging roles of the psycho-oncologist is to help guide terminally-ill patients through the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the dying process.

This textbook provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of stress, helping students and professionals understand the main neurobiological and psychological causes and consequences of stress in human beings.

Anxiety is everywhere and almost everyone knows what it is and has suffered from it.

This book is a practical resource designed for clinicians, researchers, and advanced students who wish to learn about single-case research designs.

Im Gegensatz zu anderen medizinischen Fachrichtungen kann sich die Psychiatrie oft nicht auf sichtbare, objektive Befunde stützen, sondern beschreibt abnormes Verhalten und intuitiv erfasste interpsychische Zustände.

As demographic trends shift toward an aging population, there is a growing need for improved mental health treatment for older adults.

A comprehensive overview of the associations between cannabis and mental illness, from basic sciences through to epidemiology and clinical perspectives.

Examining infant through geriatric patients, this guide compiles expert recommendations and research on the wide array of conditions that can secondarily impair cognition or behavior.

“A serious attempt to understand a common phenomenon” from the author of The Nature of Human Intelligence (Psychology Today).

Psychosocial problems appear within a medical context worldwide, and are a major burden to health.

During the past decade research into the pharmacology of cognition, particularly regarding learning and memory, has supported the concept that many potential neural targets exist for the development of cognitive-enhancing drugs.

Data collected in psychiatry and related fields are complex because outcomes are rarely directly observed, there are multiple correlated repeated measures within individuals, there is natural heterogeneity in treatment responses and in other characteristics in the populations.

Demonstrating the importance of theory for effective clinical practice, this thought-provoking volume brings together leading experts on a range of contemporary cognitive and behavioral approaches.

Functional imaging has the capability to reveal changes in the pathophysiology of tissues and organ systems, mapping the progression and severity of disease, uptake of drugs, and the recovery of tissues following trauma, disease episodes or surgery.

Learning disabilities is a subject that is usually associated with school-aged children where the research and intervention strategies are well known.

Therapeutic breathwork has become an important component of many healthcare and psychotherapeutic interventions, as well as being an essential aspect of yoga practices based in ancient wisdom traditions.

In this fully-revised fourth edition of what has long been the standard textbook for the field, Dr.

This textbook presents real-world cases and discussions that introduce the various psychiatric syndromes found in the aging population before delving into the core concepts covered by geriatric psychiatry curricula.

Freiheitsentziehende Maßnahmen sind mit einer eklatanten Einschränkung der Lebensqualität verbunden, in erster Linie natürlich für jene Personen, denen die Freiheit entzogen wird aber auch für das Fachpersonal, das die entsprechenden Entscheidungen trifft bzw.

Medical Psychotherapy draws together succinct descriptions of the major models of psychotherapy, written by specialists who offer an accessible, theoretical, and evidence based depiction of each therapy and its clinical role for patients.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Complete one-stop guide to neuroimaging techniques and their application to a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders, written by leading researchers.

The third edition of this successful textbook has been completely updated throughout and includes new chapters on electrophysiological tests, biological markers, global staging measures, and management of neuropsychiatric symptoms.

Seit Jahrhunderten faszinieren sie die Menschheit: Vampire und Werwölfe, Wesen der Dunkelheit, die die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Monster verwischen.

North America's Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system.

Obesity has quickly become an American epidemic.

Patients seeking fertility care may have experienced trauma prior to their fertility journey and often have experienced trauma as part of the fertility process itself.

What does it mean to engage in Deaf Studies and who gets to define the field?

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth .

This book is the first major attempt to review the diseases that produce schizophrenia-like syndromes, or psychotic symptoms.

A newly revised, comprehensive reference for those interested in cognitive neurorehabilitation.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Loving Psychoanalysis is written by an analyst who loves doing psychoanalysis, and who believes that psychoanalysis is a fundamentally loving endeavor.

In 1997 the National Institute of Mental Health assembled a working group of international experts to address the mental health consequences of torture and related violence and trauma; report on the status of scientific knowledge; and include research recommendations with implications for treatment, services, and policy development.

What will the ethnic, racial and cultural face of the United States look like in the upcoming decades, and how will the American population adapt to these changes?

This multidisciplinary volume considers the role of both public health and mental health policies and practices in the prevention of mass atrocity, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Challenging an exclusively medical approach to mental health and illness, this book considers the impact psychiatric drugs can have on spirituality.

This title primarily focuses on the functional mechanisms and roles of Ca2+ channels in the central nervous system, and the effects of Ca antagonists on cytosolic CA2+ by blocking voltage sensitive channels.

Wie entstehen psychische Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter?

Multidisciplinary and trans-cultural .

Gewalterleben, Vernachlässigung, Unfälle, Naturkatastrophen und lebensbedrohliche Krankheiten gehören zu den häufigsten Ursachen für die Entwicklung von Traumafolgestörungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen.

Completely up-to-date with the current MRCPsych Paper 1 examination, this list-based revision guide provides comprehensive coverage of the syllabus.

Children are being identified with more neurodevelopmental disorders than in previous decades and understanding these medically complex disorders has become critical as more children are living with these disorders.

This book presents the state of the art in the use of neuroimaging technologies in the study of schizophrenia and other primary psychotic disorders.

Psychopharmacology of the Developmental Disabilities explores the use of psychotropic and antiepileptic medications in developmentally disabled patients.