BookAna Hategan, James A. Bourgeois, Tracy Cheng, Julie Young.
Summary: This book features approximately 300 short-answer questions on geriatric psychiatry topics, each comprising the stem of a brief clinical scenario or concise question with expected number of answers. The book also features detailed teaching notes, graphics, and the respective source references. The format is consistently structured from chapter to chapter, practical and concise, and designed to enhance the reader's diagnostic and management ability and clinical understanding. Each answer includes a concise discussion, pertinent illustrations, and source references. This text is a valuable reference and teaching tool that provides an opportunity for learning across a rapidly growing field. The material covered matches the existing postgraduate curricula in geriatric psychiatry and helps prepare candidates for their specialty and subspecialty certification examinations. The cases map well to both the American Geriatric Psychiatry Association and Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry as well as other international postgraduate curricula. Geriatric Psychiatry Study Guide is the ultimate resource for students, residents, fellows, psychiatrists, psychologists, family practitioners, nurses, social workers, and all clinicians rising to the challenges of the mental health segment of the geriatric workforce.
Contents:
Physiology and Pathology of Aging
Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging in Clinical Geriatric Psychiatry
Pharmacotherapy, Somatic Therapies, and Psychotherapy in Late Life
Ethics and Law
Late-life Depressive Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, and Psychotic Disorders
Late-life Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, and Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
Substance Use Disorders in Older Adults
Comorbid Systemic Medical and Psychiatric Illness in Older Adults
Common Major and Mild Neurocognitive Disorders: Alzheimer Disease, Frontotemporal, Lewy Body, and Vascular Types
Other Major and Mild Neurocognitive Disorders: Parkinson Disease, Atypical Parkinsonism, and Traumatic Brain Injury Types
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms due to Major and Mild Neurocognitive Disorders
Sleep-Wake Disorders in Late Life
Personality Disorders in Late Life
Aging with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Emergencies in Geriatric Psychiatry
Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunctions in Later Life
Elder Abuse and Neglect
End-of-Life Care
Caregiver Burnout
Physicians as Leaders in Improving Health Care.