The Clinical Interview Using Dsm-Iv-Tr: The Difficult Patient - Softcover

Othmer, Ekkehard; Othmer, Sieglinde C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158562053X ISBN 13: 9781585620531

Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 2: The Difficult Patient applies the four-dimensional interviewing approach outlined it its companion volume (The Clinical Interview Using DSM-IV-TR®, Volume 1: Fundamentals) to the difficult patient. It also enhances the interviewing process by employing specialized techniques that correspond with difficulties often encountered by clinicians.

Through numerous case examples, this book shows how integrating psychodynamic, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric approaches -- as well as the legal system's methods of cross-examination and voices stress analysis -- can help elicit reliable information from tough patients and aid in solving their diagnostic puzzles.

Material has been added on: ? Pain in somatization disorder? Mental retardation? Oppositional behavior

Completely updated for DSM-IV-TR, this book strives to overcome generalization in interviewing by promoting a differential approach that individualizes and explores each disorder and all its contributing factors in depth, thus preparing the patient for optimal therapeutic intervention.

About this title

Review:

"This is a very helpful book on a difficult area of psychiatry."-- "John Claro Onate, B.S., M.D., Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Doody's Publishing", "March 2002"

About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 158562053X
• ISBN 13: 9781585620531
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560