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• Title:What every patient, family, friend, and caregiver needs to know about psychiatry / Richard W. Roukema.
  
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• Author/Creator:Roukema, Richard W.
  
• Published/Created:Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Pub., ©2003.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM75 .R858 2003
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Psychiatry--Popular works.
  Consumer education.
  
• Medical Subjects: Psychiatry.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xii, 318 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:If you care for someone with a mental illness -- whether as a family member, friend, or practitioner -- this hands-on reference is for you. The acclaimed What Every Patient, Family, Friend, and Caregiver Needs to Know About Psychiatry is now available in a long-awaited second edition. Like the first, this new edition is written in a simple, concise style for the layperson -- and is packed with need-to-know information on adult psychiatric disorders, including their causes, approaches to treatment, and what caregivers can do to help. It is an excellent resource for the therapist's waiting room.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index.
  
• ISBN:1585621102 (alk. paper)
  9781585621101 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Background and Normal Variations in Stress
  A Day at the Office
  Normal Development and the Life Cycle
  Heredity, Parenting, and Society
  Stress and Common Emotional Reactions
  Managing Stress
  How Emotional Illness Differs From Mental Illness
  Adjustment Disorders and Psychosomatic Disorders
  Anxiety Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, and Dissociative Disorders
  Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
  Sexual Problems in Our Culture
  Eating Disorders
  The Emotional Effects of Loss
  Personality Disorders
  Unusual Psychiatric Disorders
  Mental Illness: The Psychoses
  Mood Disorders: Depression and Manic States
  Schizophrenia
  Other Psychotic Disorders
  Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders
  Treatment of Emotional and Mental Illnesses
  How a Psychiatrist Helps
  Psychotherapy: Who, What, When, and How?