What Every Patient Family Friend and Caregiver Needs to Know About Psychiatry 2nd Edition by Richard Roukema ISBN 978-1585621101 1585621102

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ISBN 10:  1585621102

ISBN 13: 978-1585621101

Author: Richard W. Roukema

Aimed at patients and caregivers this volume provides clear advice on understanding and dealing with stress and difficult patient behaviors. It covers such topics as heredity’s role in alcohol and drug dependency, marital troubles, psychiatric problems common among the elderly, stress management, and emotional illness versus mental illness.

Table of contents: 

PART I Background and Normal Variations in Stress

1 A Day at the Office

2 Normal Development and the Life Cycle

3 Heredity, Parenting, and Society

4 Stress and Common Emotional Reactions

5 Managing Stress

PART II How Emotional Illness Differs From Mental Illness

6 Adjustment Disorders and Psychosomatic Disorders

7 Anxiety Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, and Dissociative Disorders.

8 Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.

9 Sexual Problems in Our Culture

10 Eating Disorders

11 The Emotional Effects of Loss

12 Personality Disorders

13 Unusual Psychiatric Disorders

PART III Mental Illness: The Psychoses

14 Mood Disorders: Depression and Manic States

15 Schizophrenia

16 Other Psychotic Disorders

17 Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders

PART IV Treatment of Emotional and Mental Illnesses

18 How a Psychiatrist Helps

19 Psychotherapy: Who, What, When, and How?

Conclusion.

Suggested Readings

Index.

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