Schizophrenia - Matcheri S. Keshavan, Vinod Srihari, Ravinder Reddy

Schizophrenia

A Practical Primer
Buch | Hardcover
204 Seiten
2024 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-69837-9 (ISBN)
149,60 inkl. MwSt
This second edition of Schizophrenia: A Practical Primer, includes decades of clinical and research experience in the field and helps readers understand what schizophrenia is and how it is managed.

Schizophrenia is a devastating illness that affects more than 50 million people worldwide. Written to help anyone who is faced with managing schizophrenia, whether as a clinician, patient, friend, or family member, this accessible book is an ideal first stop for practical, up-to-date information. It includes an overview of schizophrenia and provides answers to common questions that arise on different aspects of the illness, such as: diagnosis, pharmacological and psychotherapeutic management, treatment challenges and achieving recovery. Beyond these key issues, the book includes developments in the neurobiology of the illness, foreseeable developments and the history of schizophrenia. It also includes brief, realistic case vignettes adapted from clinical experience, and questions interspersed throughout the book to aid understanding.

This book is essential for professional trainee and early-career mental-health workers, such as psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses, and is written to cover in a concise and accessible way what is of immediate and practical relevance to gain familiarity with schizophrenia.

Matcheri Keshavan, MD, is Stanley R Cobb Professor and Academic Head of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC); Harvard Medical School. He has an active clinical practice at the Aspire clinic, BIDMC. Vinod H. Srihari, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of the Program for Specialized Treatment Early in Psychosis (STEP) at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC); Yale University School of Medicine. Ravinder Reddy, MD, is former Health Sciences Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine; former Psychiatry Training Director at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Preface

Chapter 1 What is and is not schizophrenia?

Chapter 2 Assessment of schizophrenia

Chapter 3 Social determinants of health affecting assessment

Chapter 4 Schizophrenia, spirituality and religion

Chapter 5 Putting together the (clinical) pieces

Chapter 6 Talking to patients and families

Chapter 7 Early intervention and prevention for schizophrenia

Chapter 8 Managing symptoms and preventing relapse: Pharmacological approach

Chapter 9 Psychosocial approaches to improve symptoms and functional outcomes

Chapter 10 Managing treatment-related complications

Chapter 11 Suboptimal treatment response

Chapter 12 Medication nonadherence

Chapter 13 Managing decompensation and relapse

Chapter 14 Suicide and violence

Chapter 15 Achieving recovery

Chapter 16 History of schizophrenia

Chapter 17 Who gets schizophrenia and why?

Chapter 18 Neurobiology of schizophrenia

Chapter 19 What does the future hold?

Glossary of terms

Helpful Resources

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 35 Tables, color; 32 Line drawings, color; 32 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 485 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Allgemeines / Lexika
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 0-367-69837-4 / 0367698374
ISBN-13 978-0-367-69837-9 / 9780367698379
Zustand Neuware
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