| Description |
1 online resource (525 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Contents |
Part I The life cycle -- Chapter 1 The beginning of life: pregnancy through preschool -- Chapter 2 School age and adolescence -- Chapter 3 The challenges of early and middle adulthood -- Chapter 4 Aging, death, and bereavement -- Part II The biological bases of behavior -- Chapter 5 Genetics, anatomy, and biochemistry of behavior -- Chapter 6 Biological assessment of patients with psychiatric symptoms -- Chapter 7 Sleep -- Part III The psychological bases of behavior -- Chapter 8 Psychodynamic theory in medical practice -- Chapter 9 Learning theory -- Chapter 10 -- Psychological assessment of patients with behavioral symptoms -- Chapter 11 Psychological therapies -- Part IV Psychopathology -- Chapter 12 Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Chapter 13 Mood disorders -- Chapter 14 Suicide -- Chapter 15 Anxiety disorders and related disorders -- Chapter 16 Somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, and malingering -- Chapter 17 Obesity and the eating disorders -- Chapter 18 Cognitive and dissociative disorders -- Chapter 19 Biological therapies -- Part V Social behavior -- Chapter 20 Culture and illness -- Chapter 21 Human sexuality -- Chapter 22 Violence, impulse control disorders, and abuse -- Chapter 23 Substance abuse -- Part VI The doctor-patient relationship -- Chapter 24 Doctor-patient communication -- Chapter 25 Psychosomatic medicine -- Chapter 26 Ethical and legal issues in medicine -- Part VII Health care delivery -- Chapter 27 Systems of health care delivery |
| Summary |
Behavioral Science in Medicine is intended as a primary textbook for the behavioral science/psychiatry course in the first two years of medical school. Each chapter includes representative clinical case scenarios illustrating important facets of the material in that chapter. All material presented in the text will be consistent with the DSM-IV-TR |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (Books@Ovid, viewed August 25, 2022) |
| Subject |
Social psychiatry.
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Cultural psychiatry.
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Mental illness.
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Psychology, Pathological.
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Psychiatry, Transcultural.
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Mental illness -- Treatment.
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Mental Disorders -- therapy
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Mental Disorders -- diagnosis
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Community Psychiatry
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Ethnopsychology
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Mental Disorders
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Psychopathology
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Behavioral Medicine -- methods
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mental disorders.
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Psychiatry, Transcultural.
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Mental illness -- Treatment.
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Cultural psychiatry.
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Mental illness.
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Psychology, Pathological.
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Social psychiatry.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781451161960 |
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1451161964 |
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