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What every patient, family, friend, and caregiver needs to know about psychiatry /

1585621102

9781585621101

b765203

What every patient, family, friend, and caregiver needs to know about psychiatry /

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Richard W. Roukema.

2nd ed.

Washington, DC :

American Psychiatric Pub.,

©2003.

xii, 318 pages ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index.

Background and Normal Variations in Stress -- A Day at the Office -- Normal Development and the Life Cycle -- Heredity, Parenting, and Society -- Stress and Common Emotional Reactions -- Managing Stress -- How Emotional Illness Differs From Mental Illness -- Adjustment Disorders and Psychosomatic Disorders -- Anxiety Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, and Dissociative Disorders -- Alcoholism and Drug Abuse -- Sexual Problems in Our Culture -- Eating Disorders -- The Emotional Effects of Loss -- Personality Disorders -- Unusual Psychiatric Disorders -- Mental Illness: The Psychoses -- Mood Disorders: Depression and Manic States -- Schizophrenia -- Other Psychotic Disorders -- Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders -- Treatment of Emotional and Mental Illnesses -- How a Psychiatrist Helps -- Psychotherapy: Who, What, When, and How?.

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If you care for someone with a mental illness -- whether as a family member, friend, or practitioner -- this hands-on reference is for you. The acclaimed What Every Patient, Family, Friend, and Caregiver Needs to Know About Psychiatry is now available in a long-awaited second edition. Like the first, this new edition is written in a simple, concise style for the layperson -- and is packed with need-to-know information on adult psychiatric disorders, including their causes, approaches to treatment, and what caregivers can do to help. It is an excellent resource for the therapist's waiting room.

Consumer education.

Psychiatry, Popular works.

Psychiatry, Popular Works.

Consumer education.

Psychiatry.

Roukema, Richard W.

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