Concise Guide to Anxiety Disorders (Concise Guides) (Concise Guides) - Softcover

Hollander MD, Eric; Simeon MD, Daphne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585620807 ISBN 13: 9781585620807

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

This guide summarizes the latest research and translates it into practical treatment strategies for the best clinical outcomes. Designed for daily use in the clinical setting, it serves as a source of information, quick to access and easy to understand and it should be of interest to psychiatrists, residents and medical students, psychologists and mental health professionals. Anxiety-related illnesses including panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social phobia and specific phobia are featured. The discussion of each disorder includes information on aetiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, course and prognosis, biological and psychological theories, medications and interventional treatments and psychotherapeutic treatments.

About this title

About the Author

Eric Hollander, M.D., is Professor and Director of Clinical Psychopharmacology and Director of the Compulsive, Impulsive and Anxiety Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York. Daphne Simeon, M.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York.

From the Back Cover

Concise Guide to Anxiety Disorders summarizes the latest research on anxiety disorders and translates it into practical treatment strategies for the best clinical outcomes. Designed for daily use in the clinical setting, it serves as an instant library of current information, quick to access and easy to understand.

Anxiety disorders are the most common of all psychiatric illnesses, causing significant functional impairment and distress. Yet, unlike patients with other psychiatric illnesses, patients with anxiety disorders are often quick to respond to proper treatment--making their treatment gratifying to clinicians.

Concise Guide to Anxiety Disorders runs the gamut of anxiety-related illnesses: panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobia, and specific phobias. The discussion of each disorder includes information on etiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, course and prognosis, biological and psychological theories, medications and interventional treatments, psychotherapeutic treatments, and combined treatments.

Strategies and methods are based on findings from an explosion of current research on the subject that has made the long-term outlook for patients with anxiety disorders more optimistic than ever before.

Every clinician who diagnoses and treats patients with anxiety disorders--including psychiatrists, residents and medical students, psychologists, and mental health professionals--will find Concise Guide to Anxiety Disorders invaluable for making informed treatment decisions.

From the Inside Flap

Concise Guide to Anxiety Disorders summarizes the latest research on anxiety disorders and translates it into practical treatment strategies for the best clinical outcomes. Designed for daily use in the clinical setting, it serves as an instant library of current information, quick to access and easy to understand.

Anxiety disorders are the most common of all psychiatric illnesses, causing significant functional impairment and distress. Yet, unlike patients with other psychiatric illnesses, patients with anxiety disorders are often quick to respond to proper treatment -- making their treatment gratifying to clinicians.

Concise Guide to Anxiety Disorders runs the gamut of anxiety-related illnesses: panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobia, and specific phobias. The discussion of each disorder includes information on etiology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, course and prognosis, biological and psychological theories, medications and interventional treatments, psychotherapeutic treatments, and combined treatments.

Strategies and methods are based on findings from an explosion of current research on the subject that has made the long-term outlook for patients with anxiety disorders more optimistic than ever before.

Every clinician who diagnoses and treats patients with anxiety disorders -- including psychiatrists, residents and medical students, psychologists, and mental health professionals -- will find Concise Guide to Anxiety Disorders invaluable for making informed treatment decisions.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585620807
• ISBN 13: 9781585620807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272