Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Psychiatry - Softcover

Kaplan, Harold I.; Sadock, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0683303309 ISBN 13: 9780683303308

Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1997

Synopsis

The 8th ed of this title incorporates significant changes to make it a useful general psychiatry text going forward to the new millennium. The last edition was the first text to incorporate the final DSM-IV nosology, and this edition augments this with ICD-10 diagnostic coding, mandated for reimbursement under the Medicare system, as well as many government agencies and third party payers. This edition is the most visually appealing, with a second colour added, highlighting coding additions and other features. In addition, as usual, the new version of synopsis captures current thinking on the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders, with new material added on psychiatric aspects of alternative medical therapies; at least 6 new drugs, with substantial updating of all drug therapy information; a new chapter on childhood substance abuse; one on legal and ethical issues in child psychiatry; and a new chapter on obesity

About this title

From the Author

Useful for the general public and mental health workers
Designed for the practicing professional, Synopsis has been of value to the general public as well. This has been gratifying to us as authors, because we believe that patients and clients of mental health practioners should have an authoritative resource, such as Synopis, that allows them to collaborate in their own treatment or in the treatment of those close to them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0683303309
• ISBN 13: 9780683303308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1280