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This issue of Medical Clinics brings the practicing internist up to date on the latest approaches in psychiatry. Topics include collaborative care and consultation, including interviewing, cultural competence, and enhancing rapport and adherence; assessments of the risk of suicide or violence in a patient in crisis; cognitive impairment such as delirium and dementia; dysregulated mood such as major depression and bipolar disorder; anxiety disorders such as panic attacks, generalized anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and obsessions or compulsions; psychopharmacologic care, including…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This issue of Medical Clinics brings the practicing internist up to date on the latest approaches in psychiatry. Topics include collaborative care and consultation, including interviewing, cultural competence, and enhancing rapport and adherence; assessments of the risk of suicide or violence in a patient in crisis; cognitive impairment such as delirium and dementia; dysregulated mood such as major depression and bipolar disorder; anxiety disorders such as panic attacks, generalized anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and obsessions or compulsions; psychopharmacologic care, including antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics, mood-stabilizing anticonvulsants, and natural remedies; non-pharmacological care of patients with co-morbid medical and psychiatric conditions, including different types of psychotherapy of the medically ill; substance use and abuse; treating the patient with multiple physical symptoms or chronic disease including somatoform disorders, AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and hypertension; symptoms at the interface of medicine and psychiatry such as pain, sleep disturbance, gastrointestinal distress, sexual dysfunction, premenstrual dysphoria, and grief; informed consent, handling capacity decisions, civil commitment, boundary issues, and malpractice claims; and an approach to the patient with organ failure, transplantation and end-of-life treatment decisions.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Theodore A. Stern is the Ned H. Cassem Professor of Psychiatry in the field of Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Chief Emeritus of The Avery D. Weisman, Psychiatry Consultation Service, and Director of the Thomas P. Hackett Center for Scholarship in Psychosomatic Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Stern has co-authored more than 550 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and he has edited or authored more than 60 books (including the MGH Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, the MGH Psychiatry Update and Board Preparation, Learning About Psychopharmacology, Facing Overweight and Obesity, Facing Pelvic Pain, Facing Memory Loss and Dementia, Facing Serious Mental Illness, and the MGH Study Guide for Psychiatry Exams). Dr. Stern is a Past-President of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) and is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of its journal, Psychosomatics (now called Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry). He has won the coveted "Best Teacher Award? from the graduating residents at the MGH/McLean Hospital Psychiatric Residency Training Program, the Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award from the HMS Department of Psychiatry, the MGH Department of Psychiatry's Award for Exceptional Mentorship in the Clinical Realm, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Liaison Psychiatry, and the Thomas P. Hackett Award from the ACLP (its highest honor).