A practical, user-friendly book providing clear strategies to help psychiatric practitioners reason through therapeutic and management options, construct back-up plans, incorporate shared decision-making, and devise personalized treatment algorithms using all therapeutic modalities. Featuring summary tables and illustrative case vignettes.

This book comprehensively describes the conceptual basis of clinical staging in psychiatry, details current progress in identifying biomarkers for each stage, and explores the implications of staging on treatment and health systems. It provides a foundation for transformational reform in psychiatric diagnosis.

This practical handbook provides a comprehensive overview of mood disorders, including diagnostic and therapeutic features as well as recent research findings on their causes. It will be invaluable to psychiatrists and psychologists, clinicians, general practitioners, and specialist mental health nurses dealing with mood disorders.

Written primarily for old age psychiatrists and trainees, but also relevant to other health and social care workers, this book focuses on important current topics in old age psychiatry. It offers information about a variety of disorders, and covers assessment and treatment, as well as legal, ethical, and philosophical issues.

Personality disorder used to be a diagnosis of exclusion, a condition deemed 'untreatable'. This situation has been transformed in the past ten years, with a huge expansion of research and clinical interest in personality disorders. This book provides an expert synthesis of these clinical advances.

At last - a new edition of the highly acclaimed book Clinical Trials in Psychiatry This book provides a concise but thorough overview of clinical trials in psychiatry, invaluable to those seeking solutions to numerous problems relating to design, methodology and analysis of such trials.

Cognitive Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder is the first comprehensive book of its kind. it compiles the latest data in neuropsychology, neuroimaging, neurogenetics, and functional outcomes research to enable clinicians to more effectively utilize pharmacological and psychotherapeutic techniques in their treatment of bipolar disorder.

Major depressive disorder is a common, often severe, disorder identified as a leading cause of disability globally. The associated economic and human costs are a direct consequence of disturbances in cognitive function. This is the first book to assemble research, clinical and public policy perspectives on cognitive dysfunction in MDD.

Describes the background and development of this new psychological therapy and demonstrates how it provides the first structured help to overcome the thinking problems associated with schizophrenia.

Presents an evidence-based cognitive therapy approach for clients with schizophrenia. This book provides guidelines for collaborative assessment and case formulation that enable the clinicians to build a strong therapeutic relationship, establish reasonable goals, and tailor treatment to each client's needs.