Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient

This well-known text is the definitive reference work on the psychiatric care of patients with medical, neurological and surgical disorders. Physical illness often places a heavy mental burden on patients and this book is the most authoritative guide to dealing with their emotional, cognitive and behavioral problems. For internists and psychiatrists, especially those in consultation/liaison psychiatry, it is an invaluable resource. The second edition has been greatly expanded and includes 28 new chapters on such topics as parenteral administration of psychotropic drugs; psychiatric aspects of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery; cognitive therapy in medical-psychiatric patients; palliative care; religious issues in medical-psychiatric practice; psychiatric assessment of chronic fatigue syndromes; reproductive neuroendocrinology; seizures and epilepsy; psychiatric assessment of the medically ill child; pain management in children; frontal lobe syndromes and traumatic brain injury; disorders of eating in medical-psychiatric patients; headache syndromes; spinal cord injury; psychopharmacology in pregnancy and lactation; chemical sensitivity syndromes; infectious diseases; medical genetics; anesthesiology; competency evaluations; and grief reactions in children.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195124529
• ISBN13: 9780195124521
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 1240 Pages
• Weight: 6.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 2.4" x 8.9"