Books published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing

Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents is a practical, easy-to-use guide for clinicians working with child and adolescent psychiatric emergencies across a range of settings-from emergency rooms to schools to community pediatric or mental health clinics.

The first major textbook to cover the treatments of DSM-5 disorders in one volume, it provides up-to-date, comprehensive information for the busy clinician. This new edition was written by leading experts in psychiatry and constitutes an authoritative guide to standard of care for psychiatric disorders.

Long-awaited, this fifth edition of Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice has been thoroughly revised in light of the new DSM-5 categories while maintaining its focus on the individual patient's specific needs and complexities. The author has restructured the text for maximum utility and enhanced understanding.

This is the Spanish Edition of the Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-5. It includes the fully revised diagnostic classification and all of the diagnostic criteria from DSM-5. This convenient guide will assist all mental health professionals as they integrate the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria into their diagnoses.

This is a semi-structured interview that uses nonpejorative questions to examine behavior and personality traits from the patient's perspective. The SIDP-IV is organized by topic sections rather than disorder to allow for a more natural conversational flow. This is a package of 5.

Psychological Trauma addresses these advances in a critical and thorough approach. The practicing physician will find this volume an indispensable addition to the existing literature.

This book examines the problem of therapeutic boundaries and boundary violations from multiple viewpoints, including historical antecedents, sociological mechanisms, object relations theory, psychodynamic theory, practical technique, and the mental health and training of psychotherapists.

Offers a critical analysis of outcome assessment, in psychiatry, which allows us to assess not only the measurable domains, but also the standards and instruments used to judge the quality of care. Divided into three major sections, this comprehensive textbook is more than just an inventory or nosology of measures; rather, it holds existing instruments to clear standards.

Drawing from their pioneering work on infant-parent mental health, the editors of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts and Clinical Practice have assembled a comprehensive, clinically useful volume for health care providers who serve children and families from pregnancy through age 5 in their practices.

Solution-focused therapy is an evidenced-based practice that focuses on creating conversations that build solutions, rather than solve problems. Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide teaches readers how to practice and become competent in conducting solution-focused therapy.

Part psychiatric textbook and part self-help manual for patients and clients, Fatal Flaws reviews comprehensively the course, treatment, genetics, biology, psychology, and destructive consequences of hysterical (histrionic), narcissistic, antisocial, paranoid, obsessive-compulsive, addictive, borderline, and schizotypal personality disorders.

The book focuses on measuring the basic processes of mental healthcare, such as access, detection, treatment appropriateness, safety and continuity of care. It integrates practical information about quality measures into a highly readable guide on how to implement measures and use the results improve quality of care.

This work offers fresh insights on five major topic areas in child and adolescent PTSD, forensic aspects of traumatized children, juvenile offender and incarcerated youth, biological treatment strategies, and the relationship between exposure to trauma in childhood and the development of psychiatric disorders in adulthood.

This book explores the role of the psychiatrist and psychologist, as an expert witness in litigation, in rendering a retrospective judgment of an individual's mental state. The contributors apply their expertise in psychiatry, psychology, and law with the goal of developing guidelines for more accurate retrospective assessment of mental states.

Benzodiazepine Dependence, Toxicity, and Abuse provides clinicians with a review of the available information on the potential hazards of benzodiazepine treatment and offers suggestions for the rational prescription of these medications.