Systematic psychiatric evaluation : a step-by-step guide to applying "The perspectives of psychiatry"

Two Johns Hopkins psychiatrists explain the Perspectives approach to evaluating patients with psychiatric disorders. The Perspectives approach to psychiatry focuses on four aspects of psychiatric practice and research: disease, dimensional, behavior, and lifestory. In Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation , Drs. Margaret S. Chisolm and Constantine G. Lyketsos underscore the benefits of this approach, showing how it improves clinicians' abilities to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients. Drs. Chisolm and Lyketsos use increasingly complex case histories to help the mental health provider evaluate patients demonstrating symptoms of bipolar disorder, psychosis, suicidal ideation, depression, eating disorders, and cutting, among other conditions. The book also includes an exercise that simulates the Perspectives approach side by side with traditional methods, revealing the advantages of a method that engages not one but four points of view. Featuring a foreword by Drs. Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney, the originators of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing mental health clinicians.

The Perspectives approach to psychiatry focuses on four aspects of psychiatric practice and research: disease, dimensional, behavior, and lifestory. In Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation, Drs. Margaret S. Chisolm and Constantine G. Lyketsos underscore the benefits of this approach, showing how it improves clinicians' abilities to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients.

Drs. Chisolm and Lyketsos use increasingly complex case histories to help the mental health provider evaluate patients demonstrating symptoms of bipolar disorder, psychosis, suicidal ideation, depression, eating disorders, and cutting, among other conditions. The book also includes an exercise that simulates the Perspectives approach side by side with traditional methods, revealing the advantages of a method that engages not one but four points of view.

Featuring a foreword by Drs. Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney, the originators of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing mental health clinicians.

Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation focuses on four aspects of psychiatric practice-- disease, dimensional, behavior, and life story perspectives-- to illustrate the biopsychosocial approach outlined in The Perspectives of Psychiatry (by Paul McHugh and Phillip Slavney). Considering each patient from several points of view and then developing a treatment plan. They aim to distill the instructions into a practical 'recipe,' and outline this systematic and integrative approach and each of its perspectives, in addition to applying it to nine cases involving issues such as bipolar disorder, psychosis, substance abuse, depression, memory and mood problems, eating disorders, cutting, and bereavement. Each case is followed by a systematic formulation interweaving each perspective, from which an integrative treatment plan is developed The psychiatric evaluation The life-story perspective The dimensional perspective The behavior perspective The disease perspective.