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(One-time use abbreviated summary form) Report Forms provide a quick way of conveying P-ChIPS results. If subsequently desired, this "at-a-glance" summary of the symptoms endorsed during the interview can be used by a clinician to identify areas warranting further scrutiny. This is a package of 20.
These Scoring Forms provide ample space for recording verbatim responses to interview questions, with check boxes to indicate whether the symptom criteria and duration and impairment requirements are met. A Profile Sheet, perforated for easy removal from the Scoring Form, is included to itemize principal findings and diagnosis. This is a package ......
(Reusable interview administration booklet) The Parent Version of the ChIPS essentially consists of the same interview text altered from second to third person to address the parent rather than the child (e.g., "Have you ever" is changed to "Has your child ever').
It examines all of the dimensions associated with this terrible occurrence: legal, ethical, administrative, educational, and rehabilitative. It provides thorough, candid coverage crucial for psychiatrists and other medical professionals, social workers, lawyers, medical board administrators, and residents in ethics and forensics seminars.
This practical guideline offers invaluable information to psychiatrists who care for patients with delirium. In helping the clinician provide treatments that address the underlying etiology of the delirium, it discusses psychiatric management, environmental and supportive interventions, and specific pharmacologic treatments.
Psychoneuroimmunology, a collaborative work of 50 international experts, expands on the American Psychiatric Association's symposium on this topic to present never-before-compiled scientific research from this evolving field. Maintaining a clinical focus, this book illustrates clinical effects by examining relevant research studies.
This book provides an overview of theory and technique that gives the reader a detailed account of how countertransference is used in contemporary practice. It shows the usefulness of examining countertransference issues in a wide range of psychiatric settings, including pharmacotherapy, consultation-liaison settings, and forensic facilities.
The book reviews research and clinical observations on this timely topic. The authors look at attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder, all of which are common among youths and often share similar symptoms of impulse control problems.
