• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Anxiety disorders : a pocket guide for primary care
  • Contains: Overview of Anxiety and the Anxiety Disorders; Brief Psychiatric History and Mental Status Examination; Psychopharmacology; Psychopharmacotherapy; Psychotherapy; Adjustment Disorder with Anxiety; Panic Disorder; Specific Phobia; Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder); Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Anxiety Disorder Due to a General Medical Condition; Anxiety Disorders and Comorbidities; Geriatric Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders
  • Contributor: Vanin, John R. [VerfasserIn]; Helsley, James D. [VerfasserIn]; Morgan, David M. [VerfasserIn eines Vorworts]
  • imprint: Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, [2008]
    [Berlin; Heidelberg]: [Springer], [2008]
  • Published in: Current clinical practice
    SpringerLink ; Bücher
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 266 Seiten); 1 Illustration
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-263-2
  • ISBN: 9781597452632
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  • Keywords: Medicine ; Family medicine ; Internal medicine ; Emergency medicine ; Medicine & Public Health ; Anxiety Disorders ; Handbooks ; Anxiety disorders ; Anxiety disorders Treatment
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: This pocket guide is designed to help the primary care practitioner recognize, diagnose, and manage anxiety disorders in a busy clinical practice. It presents an easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach, and offers practical points based on both real patient-care experience and review of current medical literature. The guide includes helpful chapters on psychopharmacology, psychopharmacotherapy, and psychologic treatment for the anxiety disorders.

    Anxiety Disorders: A Pocket Guide for Primary Careis designed to help the primary care practitioner recognize, diagnose, and manage anxiety disorders in a busy clinical practice. The first several chapters give an overview of anxiety and the anxiety disorders, and provide the practitioner with practical information and techniques regarding the psychiatric evaluation and mental status examination in a primary care practice. Extremely effective modalities are available for the management of common mental disorders, including the anxiety disorders. The goal of treatment is not simply improvement but remission of symptoms and restoration of function. The Pocket Guide includes helpful chapters on psychopharmacology, psychopharmacotherapy, and psychologic treatment for the anxiety disorders.