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The Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD provides clinicians and students with a consolidated and thoughtful reference that can be used to complement and enhance their everyday practice. This book bridges the gap between the research community and the clinician by providing a comprehensive resource of clinically relevant information on PTSD.
Written to provide clinically useful information about diagnosis and management, this manual is a comprehensive collection of empirical evidence, case studies, and the growing number of evidence-based reports on pediatric bipolar disorder over the past five years.
The Clinical Manual for Evaluation and Treatment of Sleep Disorders is both comprehensive and conveniently portable. The book's 13 chapters offer a step-by-step method of differential diagnosis for some of the most common sleep complaints encountered in today's professional clinical practice.
Sections on laboratory tests, diseases and conditions, and psychotropic medications include alphabetically arranged entries, making it easy for busy clinicians to reference the updated information.
The book offers discussions that provide approaches to therapy and rehabilitation from the vantage point of treatment environments, from street to housing. Its real-world orientation offers a detailed, practical team approach to situations posed by families, homeless children, veterans, urban and rural populations, and others.
Clinical Guide to Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Findings From the Collaborative Depression Study builds on research from the influential NIMH Collaborative Depression Study (CDS) to provide clinicians with information they can use to assess, diagnose, treat, and understand how their patients will likely fare over the course of their illness.
The book offers the clinician working in the community a practicable approach to the treatment of patients with personality disorders. Clearly written, this book focuses on issues relevant to the clinician in private practice, including the diagnosis of a wide range of personality disorders and alternative management approaches.
Questions are succinct, simply worded, and easily understood. Practitioners have already found ChIPS indispensable in screening for conditions such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, substance abuse, phobias, anxiety disorders, stress disorders, eating disorders, mood disorders, elimination disorders, and schizophrenia.
