Clinical Guide to Depression in Children and Adolescents - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880483563 ISBN 13: 9780880483568

Verlag: American Psychiatric Publishing, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

<p>It is estimated that 1-3 million children and adolescents in the United States alone suffer from depressive disorders. Frequently these disorders are comorbid with other psychiatric disorders.</p><p>This volume integrates concisely yet comprehensively advances in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of depressive disorders and bipolar disorders in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Distinguished contributors combine their many years of clinical and research experience to document press in the study of this fast-evolving area.</p><p>The book begins with a discussion of depression's clinical manifestations, including epidemiology, neurobiology, and chronobiology of seasonal mood disorders. A section on diagnostic assessment and treatment addresses standardizes approaches to assessment and such treatment modalities as dynamic psychotherapy, group therapy, cognitive therapy, the latest advances in pharmacological treatment and inpatient treatment. A concluding section examines bipolar disorder—its clinical manifestations, natural history, genetics, and treatment.</p>

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

<p>Mohammad Shafii, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky.</p><p>Sharon L. Shafii, R.N., B.S.N., is Editor-in-Residence in Louisville, Kentucky. Ms. Shafii was formerly Assistant Head Nurse in the Adolescent Service at the Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of Michigan Medical Center, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.</p>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: American Psychiatric Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0880483563
• ISBN 13: 9780880483568
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 322
• Herausgeber: Shafii Mohammad, Shafii Sharon Lee
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland