Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis - 9781462510498

Frances, a clinician, retired educator in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke U., researcher, and specialist in psychiatric diagnosis, offers mental health practitioners, primary care doctors, students, trainees, patients, and families a guide to psychiatric diagnoses and coding for various disorders, which are organized by their frequency in clinical practice and physician interest. He includes screening questions, descriptions, differential diagnoses, diagnostic tips, ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases 9th Revision Clinical Modification) codes, cautions to reduce diagnostic inflation and counter the influence of fad diagnosing, and cautions on questionable aspects of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for disorders first diagnosed in childhood and adolescence (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, autism, separation anxiety disorder, and learning, feeding, and elimination disorders); depressive, bipolar, and anxiety disorders; obsessive-compulsive, body dysmorphic, hoarding, tic, and hair-pulling disorders; trauma and stress-related disorders, including adjustment disorder; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; substance-related disorders and behavioral addictions; neurocognitive, personality, dissociative, impulse control, eating, and sleep-wake disorders; sexual and gender issues; disorders related to physical symptoms; and codes for conditions that are not mental disorders, including relational problems, abuse or neglect, medication-induced movement disorders, malingering, and bereavement. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)