History, definitions, and phenomenology -- Delirium -- Dementia and amnestic disorder -- Psychotic disorders due to medical conditions -- Mood disorder and anxiety disorder due to medical conditions --Personality change due to medical conditions -- Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative dementias -- Mental disorders arising from cerebrovascular diseases -- Psychiatric disorders arising from brain tumors -- Psychiatric manifestations of traumatic brain injuries -- Psychiatric aspects of seizure disorders -- Psychiatric manifestations of central nervoussystem infections -- Psychiatric manifestations of endocrine disorders -- Psychiatric manifestations of metabolic and vitamin deficiency disorders -- Psychiatric manifestations of exposure to toxic substances and pharmacological agents -- Alcohol-induced mental disorders -- Drug-induced mental disorders
Summary
Comprehensive, well-organized, and highly practical, this book is designed to provide mental health professionals and graduate students in all the behavioral sciences with a concise reference on mental disorders arising from medical conditions or substance abuse that is easy to understand and apply in day-to-day clinical practice. With medical jargon at its absolute minimum, Understanding Mental Disorders was created especially for psychotherapists with nonmedical backgrounds who are often called upon to recognize conditions with medical etiology that masquerade as functional psychiatric disorders. Understanding Mental Disorders is a unique handbook that will heighten the awareness of all mental health professionals and students toward organic factors in mental illness. Without having to review volumes of medical textbooks, readers will be able to more readily recognize organic conditions in the course of their work with psychiatric patients and to make appropriate - even lifesaving - medical referrals at the earliest possible moment
Notes
Spine title: Understanding mental disorders
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index
