Grounded in author Allen Frances's extensive clinical experience, this comprehensive yet concise guide helps the busy clinician find the right psychiatric diagnosis and avoid the many pitfalls that lead to errors. Covering every disorder routinely encountered in clinical practice, Frances provides the appropriate ICD-9-CM code for each one (the same code utilized in the DSM), a useful screening question, a colorful descriptive prototype, lucid diagnostic tips, and a discussion of other disorders that must be ruled out. The book closes with an index of the most common presenting symptoms, listing possible diagnoses that must be considered for each. Frances was instrumental in the development of past editions of the DSM and provides helpful cautions on questionable aspects of DSM-5.

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Uses non-technical terminology to explain the causes and treatments of various mental disorders and includes screening questionnaires to aid readers in self-diagnosis.

Two of the authors of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the standard reference in the field, explain the causes and treatments of various mental disorders and help readers perform self-diagnoses. 75,000 first printing. BOMC & QPB Alt.

Discusses a range of mental disorders that affect individuals of all ages, describing what they are, signs and symptoms, causes, prognoses, and therapeutic options

Product Description: This text takes the clinical concepts and terminology from DSM-IV and illustrates them into three dimensional examples that show both the usefulness and limitations of the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. For each of the cases it provides: a five-axis DSM-IV diagnosis; a discussion of the most likely differential diagnosis and how to choose amongst them; and a review of treatment options...read more

Product Description: "DSM-IV Guidebook" is the companion to DSM-IV, written by the experts who developed DSM-IV. Designed for the clinician, this guidebook provides a comprehensive tour through DSM-IV by the individuals who were most involved in its development...read more

Product Description: This text aims to provide the reader with a variety of clinical tools to facilitate a comprehensive differential diagnosis. "DSM-IV" is most easily accessed when looking up information about a particular disorder. This handbook provides a symptom-based perspective on DSM-IV, helping to guide the clinician when faced with the everday task of formulating a differential diagnosis given a particular presenting symptom...read more

Product Description: Four 1-hour audiotapes sold only as a setThe Chairman of the DSM-IV Task Force provides you with his view of DSM-IV, taking you on a tour of the system diagnosis by diagnosis. The tapes are filled with valuable clinical pearls regarding the diagnosis, assessment, and implications for treatment planning of most of the DSM disorders...read more

Product Description: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Section Contents: Schizophrenia. drug abuse and drug dependence. Personality disorders. Adolescent psychiatry. Psychiatric contributions to medical care. Group psychotherapy.

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