Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychiatry

Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychiatry provides the most current information
on psychiatric diagnoses seen in older patients in a concise format. Each
chapter is broken into easily understandable, increasingly focused sections, and
contains an extensive array of tables, references, and suggested readings.
Chapters include clinically relevant information and evidence-based treatments
for a wide range of topics and disorders:

The psychiatric interview of
older adults, including history, family assessment, mental status examination,
rating scales and standardized interviews, and effective communication
techniques. Psychopharmacology, including information on antidepressants,
psychostimulants, antipsychotic medications, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics and
sedative-hypnotics, and cognitive enhancers. Diagnosis and treatment of
delirium, dementia, mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, sleep
disorders, and substance use disorders, including coverage of definition,
epidemiology, clinical features, risk factors, diagnosis and differential
diagnosis, prevention and management, and treatment guidelines. Individual and
group psychotherapy strategies, including individual and group-based
cognitive-behavioral therapies, interpersonal psychotherapies, relaxation
training, cognitive stimulation therapy, and behavioral therapies. Clinical
psychiatry in the nursing home, with a focus on cognitive disorders and
behavioral disturbances, depression, treatment progress in this setting, and
relevant federal regulations.

Written by experts in geriatric psychiatry,
this clinical manual provides a much-needed "field guide" for the care of
nursing home patients and older adults. Busy clinicians, as well as researchers,
residents, fellows, clinical psychologists, and social workers, will find this
compact volume to be of the utmost value, as will anyone seeking to update their
knowledge of geriatric psychiatry.