A practical pocketbook providing a succinct overview of the different aspects of mental health disorders, facilitating a solid base knowledge of the field of psychiatry. Offering a systematic, straightforward approach, the book covers the importance and relevance of mental health disorders, their causes, presentation, and the best approaches for their treatment. Written by mental health professionals with a high level of expertise and practical experience in the treatment of patients with mental health issues, the book includes numerous clinical vignettes, bulleted lists, tables, diagrams, and algorithms to facilitate understanding. It covers the important topics across psychiatry including the psychiatric interview, psychosocial theories and their implications for psychiatry; neurostimulation treatments; the suicidal patient; dementias as well as full coverage of the depressive, bipolar, anxiety, and psychotic disorders. Essential reading for medical students, trainees in psychiatry, and other healthcare professions interested in expanding their knowledge of psychiatry and mental health.

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List of contributors; Foreword; Preface Marsal Sanches and Jair C. Soares; 1. Introduction Marsal Sanches and Jair C. Soares; 2. The psychiatric interview Dean J. Atkinson and Amanda Helminiak; 3. Psychopathology and the mental status examination Marsal Sanches; 4. Classifications and the diagnostic process in psychiatry Marcelo Bruno Generoso and Marsal Sanches; 5. Neurobiology of mental disorders Karen Horn, Anita Barrera, Abdul Haseeb and Rodrigo Machado-Vieira; 6. Psychosocial theories and their implication for psychiatry Claudia Lex and Thomas D. Meyer; 7. General aspects of psychopharmacology Grace S. Pham and Sanjay J. Mathew; 8. Neurostimulation treatments Luis A. Wische-Fernandez and Salih Selek; 9. Ethico-legal considerations in psychiatry Edward Poe; 10. Transcultural aspects of mental health care Syed Shahzeb Ayaz and Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali; 11. Child and adolescent psychiatry Cristian Patrick Zeni and Priscilla Granja Machado; 12. Principles of geriatric sychiatry Antonio L Teixeira and Jennifer R. Gatchel; 13. Reproductive psychiatry Julia N. Riddle, Margo Nathan, Riah Patterson and Anne Ruminjo; 14. Psychomotor agitation Olusegun Adebisi Popoola and Nidal MoukaddamI; 15. The suicidal patient Ryan E Lawrence; 16. Depressive disorders Carolina Olmos and Joao Quevedo; 17. Bipolar disorders Marsal Sanches and Jair C. Soares; 18. Psychotic disorders Olaoluwa Okusaga and Gabriela Austgen; 19. Anxiety disorders Grace Kim, Vaishali Tirumalaraju and Sudhakar Selvaraj; 20. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Jordan T. Stiede, Emily R. Strouphauer, Erika S. Trent, Sameer A. Sheth, Nisha Giridharan, Wayne K. Goodman, Andrew D. Wiese and Eric A. Storch; 21. Post-traumatic stress disorder: an update on diagnosis, etiology, and treatment John M. Bouras; 22. Borderline personality disorder Marcos S. Croci, Marcelo J. A. A. Brañas, Steve Conway, Julia Jurist and Lois W. Choi-Kain; 23. Antisocial personality disorder Morgan T. Deal and Juan J. Sosa; 24. Other personality disorders Maria Carolina Pedalino Pinheiro and Carolina Olmos; 25. Eating disorders Carrie J. McAdams; 26. Alcohol use disorder Michael Weaver and Heather Webber; 27. Other substance use disorders Thanh Thuy Truong; 28. Autistic spectrum disorders Taiwo T. Babatope, Antonio F. Pagán, Caroline W. McCool, Natalie R. Parks, Nermin Koch, Laura M. Welch and Parnaz Daghighi; 29. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Cesar A. Sotullo; 30. Delirium and other medical conditions presenting with psychiatric symptoms Silvia Hafliger; 31. Dementia Jeffrey McBride and Lokesh Shahani; 32. Psychiatric care of the medical patient: neuroleptic malignant syndrome and serotonin syndrome Lindsey S. Pershern and Robert J Boland; Appendix; Index.