Mental Status Examination for Personality Disorders is for clinical students, interns, residents, and practicing professionals who want to painlessly perfect their evaluation skills.
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You receive Model interview scripts and Questionnaires for your patients to fill out in advance.
The text explains the Personality Inventory Scales, an evaluation tool for Personality disorders, and The Card Test Cognitive Examination that measures attention, language, memory, abstract thinking, and sequential thinking (executive function).
Mental Status Examination for Personality Disorders explains the nature of each Personality disorder and how to interview and treat patients with Personality disorders in clinical settings.
Every step of the diagnostic thinking process is explained, so that when you see a difficult Personality disordered patient in the emergency room, hospital, clinic, private office, or forensic setting, you will know just what to do.
American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5) and World Health Organization (ICD-10) codes are explained in detail.
You will learn from patients with Borderline, Narcissistic, Histrionic, Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive, Schizoid, Schizotypal, Paranoid, Passive-Aggressive, Antisocial, and Psychopathic Personalities plus Conduct Disorder and Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression, Substance Use Disorders, and other conditions that masquerade as Personality disorders.
They tell you their stories as if you were their personal clinician and you diagnose their problems.
Mental Status Examination for Personality Disorders then introduces you to 32 challenging, real-life patients who were given the same Mental Status examination.
It explains how to perform and interpret a validated DSM-5 and ICD-10 Mental Status Examination specifically designed for patients with Personality disorders and demonstrated in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research, Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services, and Psychological Reports.
Mental Status Examination for Personality Disorders is for clinical students, interns, residents, and practicing professionals who want to painlessly perfect their evaluation skills
