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Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89 EAN: 9780781725323 Edition: 3rd ISBN: 0781725321 Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 496 Publication Date: May 15, 2001 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Thoroughly updated for its Third Edition, this popular quick-reference handbook remains a staple for medical students on psychiatric rotations as well as psychiatric residents and practitioners. In an easy-to-scan outline format, the book presents the etiology, epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and treatment of all psychiatric disorders. Additional chapters cover the psychiatric examination, special populations, psychotherapy, biological therapies, medication-induced movement disorders, legal issues, and laboratory tests. The book is replete with tables and includes color photographs of psychiatric drugs. Each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, which include cross-references to specific page numbers in Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Seventh Edition. Average Rating:
 Rating: - usefuli was required to buy this book for my behavioral science course in med school. its chapters pretty much follow the dsm with the addition of treatment for each disorder. i can see this being very useful on the psych rotation as well. Rating: - Good little handbookI am starting a psychiatry residency after switching from Pediatrics. This is a good little handbook that just gives you a good overview of psychiatry. It's chapters are congruent with the 17 clinical disorders (d/o)(ie: substance abuse, mood d/o, schizophrenia etc.) within the DSM-IV. It's nice because for each d/o it covers things like epidemiology, causes, DSM-IV criteria, and treatments. Allbeit VERY small font, they have even thought to put tables of the DSM-IV criteria along with each d/o. ... Read More Rating:  - OK for boards review or medical studentsI'm starting a psychiatry residency after being a general practice doc, and want to get up to speed before beginning. This book is in outline format and covers a LOT of material very briefly--which is fine. But it's full of typos, some of which change the meaning of sentences in important ways! And the numerous tables are done in a font so small that even with good eyes I have trouble reading them. To me this is a good book to review for the psych part of the boards, or for a medical student on ... Read More Rating:  - Compact and informativeThe sectional layout of this edition follows that of the huge comprehensive textbook of psychiatry. However, information is relevant and pertinent to medical students and practicing residents. Although, a bit light on psychotherapeutic treatments it is good on topics of definitions, epidemilogy and psychotropics. Good tables and figures throughout. Good in terms of what it is marketed as... a handbook. Go to the Synopsis or Comprehensive textbooks for fuller understanding. 
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