Schizophrenia: a practical primer

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"Schizophrenia: A Practical Primer is designed to provide essential, detailed, state-of-the-art information in easily digestible segments, with user-friendly references that are key reading for primary care physicians, psychiatry trainees, and early career mental health workers (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counsellors, and nurses)." "Each chapter is laden with brief case vignettes, adapted from real clinical experience of the authors, which illustrate the issues under consider…

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Full title :Schizophrenia : a practical primer / Ravinder Reddy, Matcheri Keshavan ; foreword by Robin M. Murray.

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Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Distributed in North and South America by Taylor & Francis, Informa healthcare
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 211 pages : : illustrations, portraits ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781841845296, 1841845299
oclc:ocm65339394
LC Classification:RC514
Dewey Decimal:616.898

What is and is not schizophrenia? -- Assessment of schizophrenia -- Non-illness related factors affecting assessment -- Schizophrenia, spirituality, and religion -- Putting together the (clinical) pieces -- Talking to patients and families -- Prognostication -- Phase-specific treatment -- Managing symptoms : pharmacological approach -- Managing symptoms : psychosocial approaches -- Rehabilitation : road to recovery -- Managing treatment-related complications -- Suboptimal treatment response -- Treatment non-adherence -- Managing decompensation and relapse -- Suicide and violence -- Achieving recovery -- History of schizophrenia -- Who gets schizophrenia and why? -- Neurobiology of schizophrenia -- What does the future hold?