Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (eBook)

Hoyle Leigh, Jon Streltzer (Herausgeber)

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2007
XIV, 420 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-69255-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Consultation-liaison psychiatry interfaces between psychiatry and the rest of medicine as well as psychology, social work, nursing, and other behavioral science disciplines. This is a practical, up-to-date handbook providing a biopsychosocial, integrative perspective and drawing of the expertise of two renowned psychiatrists in the field. The book offers five major sections addressing the fundamentals of the field as well as an assessment the current status of the field.

Hoyle Leigh, MD, is Professor Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of a number of books on consultation-liaison psychiatry and behavioral sciences, including 'The Patient: Biological, Psychological, and Social Dimensions of medical Practice' (Plenum/Kluwer, three editions). Previously, he was Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University where he established the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic that pioneered the field of behavioral medicine.

Jon Streltzer, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry at University of Hawaii. He is renowned for his work in cultural psychiatry, psychonephrology, and chronic pain. He is a co-author of 'Culture and Psychopathology: Guidelines for Clinical Assessment' and 'Culture and Psychotherapy: A Guide to Clinical Practice.'

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Consultation-liaison psychiatry is an important interface between psychiatry and the rest of medicine as well as psychology, social work, nursing, and other behavioral science disciplines. This book is a practical, up-to-date handbook providing a biopsychosocial, integrative perspective and drawing the expertise of two renowned psychiatrists in the field. It is organized in five major sections addressing the fundamentals of the field as well as including an assessment of where the field is today. Chapters also address specific pathologies and populations.

Inhalt

Preface.- Part I: Nature and Evolution of CL Psychiatry.- Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine.- The Functions of CL Psychiatry.- The Why and How of Psychiatric Consultation.- Evidence Based Literature Evaluation in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Common Reasons for Consultation and their Management.- Part II: Psychiatric Syndromes in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Basic Foundations of Diagnosis, Psychiatric Diagnosis, and Final Common Pathway Syndromes.- Delirium, Dementia, Alcohol Intoxication and Withdrawal Syndromes.- Anxiety and Anxiety Syndromes, Acute Stress & PTSD.- Depression, Mania, and Mood Syndromes.- Psychosis.- Chronic Pain.- Substance Use Problems.- Psychological Factors Affecting Medical Conditions, Somatoform Disorders, Conversion, Dissociation, and Factitious Syndromes.- Somatization, Hypochondriasis, and Somatization Disorder.- Patient’s Personality, Personality Types and Traits, and Disorders.- Part III: Special Patients and Settings in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- The Acutely Ill Patient and ICU Setting.- The Chronic Patient/Palliative Care Settings/The Dying Patient.- Consultation-liaison Psychiatry in the Outpatient Setting.- The Kidney Impaired Patient.- The Immune-Compromised Patients- HIV and Organ Transplantation.- The Liver Impaired Patient.- The Cross-Cultural Patient: Cultural Aspects of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Obstetrics and Gynecology Patients: Menstrual Cycle, Pregnancy and Postpartum Related Psychiatric Disorders.- Children and Adolescents.- The Geriatric Patient.- The Emergency Department Setting.- Part IV: Special Techniques in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Interviewing in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.- Systems Understanding and Intervention, Ethical Issues.- Special Procedures: Intravenous Sedative Interviews, Hoover Test, Hypnosis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 420 p. 10 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Schlagworte: Biopsychosocial • Consultation-liaison • Depression • Diagnosis • Evolution • Intervention • nursing • Psychiatry • Social Work • Syndrom
• ISBN-10: 0-387-69255-X / 038769255X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-69255-5 / 9780387692555