Difficult Psychiatric Consultations An Integrated Approach /

• Main Authors: Delgado, Sergio V. (Author), Strawn, Jeffrey R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Psychiatry.; Psychotherapy.; Psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Psychology, general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.

This innovative and important book describes a practical and clinically-relevant approach to the “difficult” psychiatric consultation. The authors systematically examine psychodynamic theories, family systems theories, and legal and ethical aspects of these consultations. Difficult Psychiatric Consu...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Integrating theoretical paradigms
• The patient: Cognitive Functioning
• Temperament
• The Family
• Family System Theory
• Family System Concepts
• Genograms and Family Mapping
• The Family in child and adolescent psychiatry
• The treatment team: Evolution of the team
• Anatomy of the team
• Countertransference in the psychiatric consultant and the treatment team
• Ethics and Medisocial issues
• The culture
• A working definition of culture
• Culture Shock
• Mental Health across cultures
• Working with interpreters
• Culture in DSM IV and DSM V
• The clinical presentation
• Presentations
• Preparation of presentations.