Anxiety Disorders: A Pocket Guide For Primary Care Paperback

This pocket guide is designed to help the primary care practitioner recognize, diagnose, and manage anxiety disorders in a busy clinical practice. It presents an easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach, and offers practical points based on both real patient-care experience and review of current medical literature. The guide includes helpful chapters on psychopharmacology, psychopharmacotherapy, and psychologic treatment for the anxiety disorders.

9781588299239

English

Humana Press

09-Jan-08

266

Recognition and treatment of psychiatric disorders is a rapidly growing demand for today's busy primary care practitioners. In Anxiety Disorders: A Pocket Guide for Primary Care, distinguished clinicians combine over a century of experience into concise, practical information and techniques for the diagnosis, evaluation, and effective management of psychiatric disorders. This indispensable resource offers an easy to understand overview of anxiety disorders including adjustment disorder, panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and substance-induced anxiety disorder. The authors examine key somatic complaints and comorbidities that often mask underlying psychiatric problems and illuminate extremely effective treatment modalities in both psychological and pharmacotherapy.

John R. Vanin

James D. Helsley

From the reviews: "This book provides evidence-based information for busy primary care physicians who wish to expand their knowledge of anxiety disorders. ... Primary care practitioners who wish to improve their recognition and management of anxiety disorders are the audience. ... an excellent resource for quick reference, especially in between patient appointments, which is often the appeal of a pocket guide. ... I would recommend this book to a primary care practitioner, at any level of training ... ." (Helen Macey, Doody's Review Service, September, 2008)