Product Description: The Maudsley Handbook of Practical Psychiatry has long served trainees in psychiatry, presenting them with practical and essential advice. This new edition of the handbook, perhaps better known as the 'orange book', provides guidance on the psychiatric and neuropsychiatric examination and interviewing of adults and children - not just a central skill, but the basis for reaching a diagnosis and defining a treatment plan...read more

Product Description: The Maudsley Handbook of Practical Psychiatry has long served trainees in psychiatry, presenting them with practical and essential advice. This new edition of the handbook, perhaps better known as the 'Orange book', provides guidance on the psychiatric and neuropsychiatric examination and interviewing of adults and children - not just a central skill, but the basis for reaching a diagnosis and defining a treatment plan...read more

Product Description: The psychiatric interview is your window into the mind of your patient. With this practical, how-to handbook, you'll examine each aspect of the psychiatric interview in detail. Your journey begins with the general principles essential to effective interviewing—including techniques for approaching threatening topics, improving patient recall, and dealing with challenging patients...read more

Product Description: SCAN - Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry - is a set of instruments aimed at assessing and classifying psychopathology in adults. Developed in the framework of WHO and the US ADAMHA Joint Project on Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Disorders, Alcohol and Drug Related Problems, SCAN is a set of instruments aimed at assessing, measuring and classifying the psychopathology and behaviour associated with the major psychiatric disorders of adult life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Now in a revised and expanded edition, this volume of notes on interviewing and examining psychiatric patients establishes the basis for successful interaction, diagnosis, and treatment. It is intended for students beginning their psychiatric training...read more