The Difficult-to-Treat Psychiatric Patient (eBook)

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2008
460 Seiten
American Psychiatric Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-58562-788-2 (ISBN)

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In this book, experts address the sequential clinical steps to be taken in treating difficult-to-treat psychiatric patients by offering a blend of evidence-based clinical recommendations, detailed case vignettes, treatment algorithms, and the clinical wisdom of leaders in the field.


Why do some psychiatric patients fail to get better, even when in the care of competent clinicians?

Treatment-refractory conditions are all too common in everyday clinical practice. Treatment resistance occurs across the full spectrum of psychiatric disorders, incurring enormous emotional, economic, and social costs. In the United States, treatment of depression alone costs more than $40 billion annually, and as many as 40% of patients with depression have a treatment-refractory form of the illness.

This groundbreaking clinical guide starts where standard textbooks end, focusing on clinical strategies to be used after all basic treatment options, such as medication and psychotherapy, have failed. In this book expert contributors address the sequential clinical steps in treating difficult-to-treat psychiatric patients by offering a blend of evidence-based clinical recommendations, detailed case vignettes, treatment algorithms, and -- when necessary to go beyond the reach of evidence -- the clinical wisdom of leaders in the field.

The chapters in this user-friendly, practical guide are organized by major disorder. Each chapter offers concrete recommendations on what to do when the usual first steps in therapy are ineffective, including evidence for biopsychosocial treatments alone versus in combination, generic versus specific therapies, and literature reviews and the latest expert wisdom. A sampling includes • The management of the complex and often refractory bipolar disorder, which involves replacing or combining lithium treatment with anticonvulsants or atypical antipsychotic agents with adjuncts such as benzodiazepines, thyroid hormone, and electroconvulsive therapy, but also -- above all -- with careful attention to the therapeutic alliance.• The importance of combined therapeutic modalities for patients with schizophrenia -- especially given managed care's cost-cutting strategies, which deprive many schizophrenic patients of effective treatment modalities such as family therapy or early use of an atypical antipsychotic.• Combination treatments for anxiety, with medications adjusted over time as symptoms wax and wane, and early and appropriate interventions to mitigate internal and external environmental stressors.• The emphasis on common sense, optimism, a sense of humor, and an iron constitution as the most important tools for clinicians wishing to work with the most severely ill patients with borderline personality disorder.• The importance of individual differences in biological vulnerability, emotionality and expressiveness, cognitive schemas and beliefs, prior traumatic experience, resilience, and coping strategies for successful treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder.

Packed with up-to-date information of immediate relevance, this volume will prove invaluable in both classroom and clinical practice, for everyone from beginning interns and residents to experienced psychiatric and medical practitioners and social workers.

ContributorsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The difficult-to-treat patient with bipolar disorderChapter 3. The difficult-to-treat patient with schizophreniaChapter 4. The difficult-to-treat patient with depressionChapter 5. The difficult-to-treat patient with anxiety disorderChapter 6. The difficult-to-treat patient with posttraumatic stress disorderChapter 7. The difficult-to-treat patient with borderline personality disorderChapter 8. The difficult-to-treat patient with dissociative disorderChapter 9. The difficult-to-treat patient with eating disorderChapter 10. The difficult-to-treat patient with substance abuseChapter 11. The difficult-to-treat patient with dementia or traumatic brain injuryChapter 12. The difficult-to-treat psychiatric patient with comorbid medical illnessChapter 13. Special somatic treatmentsChapter 14. Summary: clinical wisdom in psychiatryIndex

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.8.2008
Verlagsort Washington
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 150 mm
Gewicht 862 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitsfachberufe
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 1-58562-788-7 / 1585627887
ISBN-13 978-1-58562-788-2 / 9781585627882
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