Barbara Schildkrout

Unmasking Psychological Symptoms (eBook, ePUB)

How Therapists Can Learn to Recognize the Psychological Presentation of Medical Disorders

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

More than 100 medical diseases many common ailments are capable of masquerading as mental disorders. This book shows clinicians how to identify patients who are most likely to have an underlying physical ailment and how to direct them to a targeted medical work-up. With guidance on working with patients during the referral process and afterward, as well as on integrating medical findings into ongoing therapeutic work, clinicians will benefit from the practical advice on recognizing signs, symptoms, and patterns of medical diseases that may be underlying a psychologically presenting malady.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118106150
• Artikelnr.: 37353082

Autorenporträt

Barbara Schildkrout, MD, is a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. She has taught for many years at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. She is a board-certified psychiatrist and has had a private clinical practice in the Boston area for over twenty-five years.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: The Nature of the Problem. Chapter Two: Laying the Groundwork.
Chapter Three: What Characteristics Make Organic Diseases Difficult to
Detect? Chapter Four: Patterns in Time. Chapter Five: The Clinical
Interview. Chapter Six: The History of the Present Illness. Chapter Seven:
Specific Physical Signs and Symptoms. Chapter Eight: Classical
Presentations--Focal Signs, Dementia, and Delirium. Chapter Nine: Specific
Mental Signs and Symptoms. Chapter Ten: Important Aspects of the Patient
Assessment--A Second Look. Chapter Eleven: Extended Clinical
Vignettes--Working with Patients. References.