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" What every patient, family, friend, and caregiver needs to know about psychiatry / "
Richard W. Roukema.
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BL
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1010833
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b765203
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Roukema, Richard W.
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What every patient, family, friend, and caregiver needs to know about psychiatry /\ Richard W. Roukema.
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2nd ed.
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Washington, DC :: American Psychiatric Pub.,, ©2003.
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xii, 318 pages ;; 23 cm
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1585621102
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: 9781585621101
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index.
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| Contents
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Background and Normal Variations in Stress -- A Day at the Office -- Normal Development and the Life Cycle -- Heredity, Parenting, and Society -- Stress and Common Emotional Reactions -- Managing Stress -- How Emotional Illness Differs From Mental Illness -- Adjustment Disorders and Psychosomatic Disorders -- Anxiety Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, and Dissociative Disorders -- Alcoholism and Drug Abuse -- Sexual Problems in Our Culture -- Eating Disorders -- The Emotional Effects of Loss -- Personality Disorders -- Unusual Psychiatric Disorders -- Mental Illness: The Psychoses -- Mood Disorders: Depression and Manic States -- Schizophrenia -- Other Psychotic Disorders -- Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders -- Treatment of Emotional and Mental Illnesses -- How a Psychiatrist Helps -- Psychotherapy: Who, What, When, and How?.
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| Abstract
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If you care for someone with a mental illness -- whether as a family member, friend, or practitioner -- this hands-on reference is for you. The acclaimed What Every Patient, Family, Friend, and Caregiver Needs to Know About Psychiatry is now available in a long-awaited second edition. Like the first, this new edition is written in a simple, concise style for the layperson -- and is packed with need-to-know information on adult psychiatric disorders, including their causes, approaches to treatment, and what caregivers can do to help. It is an excellent resource for the therapist's waiting room.
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Consumer education.
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Psychiatry, Popular works.
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Psychiatry, Popular Works.
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Consumer education.
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Psychiatry.
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616.89
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RC460.R68 2003
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WM 75 R858 2003
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