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Psychiatric Services
A Journal of the American Psychiatric Association
Editor: Howard H. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D

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Dulcan's Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Edited by Mina K. Dulcan, M.D.

Dulcan’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry supplants the previous textbook edited by Jerry Wiener and Mina Dulcan—not with a new edition, but rather a new book. It offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive text in child and adolescent psychiatry. Both scholarly and practical, this is a core resource for child and adolescent psychiatry training and will also serve as a reference for practitioners in psychiatry, pediatrics, neurology, psychology, nursing, and social work.

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Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy
Gabor I. Keitner, M.D., Alison M. Heru, M.D., and Ira D. Glick, M.D.

Clinical Manual of Couples and Family Therapy outlines practical, evidence-based family therapy skills, and it also reestablishes the role of the psychiatrist as the leader of the team of professionals providing mental health care to patients in need. This concise manual outlines distinct steps in assessment and treatment within a biopsychosocial organizing framework that can be applied to all families, regardless of the patient's presenting problem. It also clarifies the clinical decision-making process for determining level of family involvement in patient care in different clinical settings. The book includes numerous case examples as well as a companion DVD, keyed to the text discussion, that demonstrates how to perform family assessment and treatment.

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Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health
Edited by Elissa P. Benedek, M.D., Peter Ash, M.D., and Charles L. Scott, M.D.

This timely and authoritative sourcebook covers issues ranging from child custody to litigation concerns as it walks clinicians through the legal thickets of depositions and courtroom testimony. Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health expands on its predecessor volume Principles and Practice of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry, winner of the 2003 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award, to address twenty-first-century concerns, from telepsychiatry to the Internet, while continuing to cover basic issues such as forensic evaluation, psychological screening, and the interviewing of children for suspected sexual abuse.

How to Practice Evidence-Based Psychiatry
Basic Principles and Case Studies
Edited by C. Barr Taylor, M.D.

How to Practice Evidence-Based Psychiatry: Basic Principles and Case Studies explains the methods and philosophy of evidence-based psychiatry and describes ways in which psychiatrists and other mental health specialists can incorporate evidence-based psychiatry into clinical practice. It expands and complements the popular text Concise Guide to Evidence-Based Psychiatry, which provides details on obtaining and interpreting medical evidence, and it allows experts from a variety of specialty areas and practice settings to describe interesting and inspiring cases of their own.

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