Essential Psychopathology Casebook

A problem-based learning casebook, keyed to the newly released DSM-V. The clinical cases in this book are about real people suffering from psychopathology. Reviewing these cases will allow the early clinician to learn by observing the decision-making process of experienced clinicians. Reading this book is as close to a real-life experience as a reader can have without a patient in front of them. Each chapter is consistently organized to answer these central questions concerning clinical presentation: functional impairment; DSM diagnosis (keyed to DSM-V); epidemiology; differential diagnosis; etiology and pathogenesis; natural course without treatment; evidence-based bio-psycho-socio-spiritual treatment options; clinical course with management and treatment; systems-based practice issues; and legal, ethical, and cultural challenges. Designed as a clinical companion to the bestselling text, Essential Psychopathology and Its Treatment: Third Edition, this book?? important lessons can also be learned by reading it as a stand-alone text.

• | Author: Mark D. Kilgus|William S. Rea
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: Apr 28, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 648 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0393708225
• | ISBN-13: 9780393708226