Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practice

ISBN 10: 078176873X / ISBN 13: 9780781768733

Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008

About this Item

Paperback. NOT Ex-library. Good condition. Clean pages and tight binding. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emergency Psychiatry: Principles and Practice
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 078176873X
• ISBN 13: 9780781768733
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Written and edited by leading emergency psychiatrists, this is the first comprehensive text devoted to emergency psychiatry. The book blends the authors' clinical experience with evidence-based information, expert opinions, and American Psychiatric Association guidelines for emergency psychiatry. Case studies are used throughout to reinforce key clinical points.

This text brings together relevant principles from many psychiatric subspecialties&;community, consultation/liaison, psychotherapy, substance abuse, psychopharmacology, disaster, child, geriatric, administrative, forensic&;as well as from emergency medicine, psychology, law, medical ethics, and public health policy. The emerging field of disaster psychiatry is also addressed.

A companion Websiteoffers instant access to the fully searchable text.