Table of contents:
1. Refractory Schizophrenia 2. Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia 3. Unstable Manic-Depressives 4. Treatment-Resistant Unipolar Depression 5. Treatment of the Difficult Panic Patient 6. Treatment of the Difficult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patient 7. Anorexia Nervosa 8. Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 9. The Psychopharmacological Treatment of Substance Abuse (including Alcoholism) 10. Behavioural Disturbances in Old Age 11. The Violent Patient in the Community 12. The Hyperactive Child 13. Ways of Improving Compliance
This accessible and authoritative handbook gathers together thirteen clinically relevant areas in the treatment of those psychiatry patients who are problematic. These topics cover a necessarily wide range, including substance abuse. This book is written by an internationally distinguished team and clarifies the diagnostic and treatment issues, presenting both general principles and more detailed management plans. This book will provide its readers with advice on how to deal with the many difficult situations they face increasingly frequently, all of which cause major problems in treatment. As the questions involved are often controversial as well as complex, this book will be of particular interest to all clinical psychiatrists and will become an essential reference source.
An accessible and authoritative handbook, written by an internationally distinguished team. It gathers together a necessarily wide range of clinically relevant areas in the treatment of problematic psychiatry patients, including substance abuse.
1. Refractory Schizophrenia 2. Treatment of Tardive Dyskinesia 3. Unstable Manic-Depressives 4. Treatment-Resistant Unipolar Depression 5. Treatment of the Difficult Panic Patient 6. Treatment of the Difficult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patient 7. Anorexia Nervosa 8. Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 9. The Psychopharmacological Treatment of Substance Abuse (including Alcoholism) 10. Behavioural Disturbances in Old Age 11. The Violent Patient in the Community 12. The Hyperactive Child 13. Ways of Improving Compliance
This accessible and authoritative handbook gathers together thirteen clinically relevant areas in the treatment of those psychiatry patients who are problematic. These topics cover a necessarily wide range, including substance abuse. This book is written by an internationally distinguished team and clarifies the diagnostic and treatment issues, presenting both general principles and more detailed management plans. This book will provide its readers with advice on how to deal with the many difficult situations they face increasingly frequently, all of which cause major problems in treatment. As the questions involved are often controversial as well as complex, this book will be of particular interest to all clinical psychiatrists and will become an essential reference source.
An accessible and authoritative handbook, written by an internationally distinguished team. It gathers together a necessarily wide range of clinically relevant areas in the treatment of problematic psychiatry patients, including substance abuse.