Clinical psychiatry essentials / editor, Laura Weiss Roberts ; associate editors, Jinger G. Hoop, Thomas W. Heinrich.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding and evaluating patients with mental illness -- Essential lessons of psychiatry -- Doctor-patient relationship in the context of mental illness -- Psychiatric interview -- Differential diagnosis of mental illnesses and case formulation -- Neuroimaging and laboratory evaluation -- Psychological and neuropsychological testing -- Mental disorders -- Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence -- Dementia, delirium, and other disorders associated with cognitive impairment -- Substance-related disorders -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Mood disorders -- Anxiety disorders -- Somatoform disorders -- Dissociative disorders -- Sexual and gender identity disorders -- Eating disorders -- Sleep disorders -- Impulse control disorders -- Adjustment disorders -- Personality disorders -- Therapeutic interventions for mental illness -- Behavioral medicine strategies -- Psychopharmacological therapies -- Psychotherapies -- Somatic therapies -- Therapeutic response to chronic pain -- Therapeutic response to psychiatric emergencies -- Caring for special populations with mental illness -- Caring for children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders -- Psychiatric care for the medically ill -- Caring for elders with mental illness -- Psychiatric research and its application to the care of patients -- Research advances in neuroscience and psychiatric genetics -- Epidemiology research in psychiatry -- Practicing evidence-based psychiatry.