Bookedited by Mugdha E. Thakur, Dan G. Blazer, David C. Steffens.
Summary: Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychiatry provides the most current information on psychiatric diagnoses seen in older patients in a concise format. Each chapter is broken into easily understandable, increasingly focused sections, and contains an extensive array of tables, references, and suggested readings.
Contents:
The psychiatric interview of older adults / Dan G. Blazer
Psychopharmacology / Benoit H. Mulsant, Bruce G. Pollock
Delirium / Li-Wen Huang, Sharon K. Inouye
Dementia and milder cognitive syndromes / Constantine G. Lyketsos
Mood disorders / Dan G. Blazer, David C. Steffens, John Beyer
Schizophrenia and paranoid disorders / Jeste, Vahia, Lanouette
Anxiety disorders / Eric J. Lenze, Julie Loebach Wetherell
Sleep and circadian rhythm disorders / Andrew D. Krysal, Jack D. Edinger, William K. Wohlgemuth
Alcohol and drug problems / David W. Oslin, Shahrzad Mavandadi
Individual and group psychotherapy / Thomas Lynch, Moria Smoski
Clinical psychiatry in the nursing home / Joel E. Streim, Ira R. Katz.