The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia

American Psychiatric Association The guideline focuses specifically on evidence-based pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments for schizophrenia and includes statements related to assessment and treatment planning, which are an integral part of patient-centered care. The guideline provides direction on implementing these recommendations into clinical practice, with the goal of improving the quality of care and treatment outcomes for patients with schizophrenia.

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Clinical Sleep Medicine

Edited by Emmanuel H. During, M.D., and Clete A. Kushida, M.D., Ph.D. This guide features the most up-to-date information and latest guidelines and summarizes the pathophysiological mechanisms, epidemiology, clinical presentations, and management of the six principal categories of adult and pediatric sleep disorders: insomnia, hypersomnia, sleep-disordered breathing, circadian disorders, parasomnias, and sleep-related movement disorders.

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Human Trafficking

Edited by John H. Coverdale, M.D., Mollie R. Gordon, M.D., and Phuong T. Nguyen, Ph.D. This is an educational and clinical resource for health care practitioners from any discipline who may encounter sex- or labor-trafficked persons. The book provides the background knowledge and frontline clinical strategies providers need to identify, relate to, and treat these psychologically wounded, yet resilient patients.

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Seeking Value

Edited by Wesley E. Sowers, M.D., and Jules M. Ranz, M.D. This comprehensive volume examines the myriad factors that have led to the current state of health care in the United States—starting with an analysis of the meaning and history of value measurement—but it does not stop there. It offers a holistic vision for health care reform, one in which psychiatric professionals play a pivotal role.

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Tipping the Scales

Edited by Patricia Westmoreland, M.D. This book takes an unflinching look at the role of ethics in compelling treatment for individuals with severe and enduring eating disorders (SEEDs) and the legal context in which coercion, civil commitment, and related issues are situated. The book explores ethical considerations, coercion in treatment, mental capacity in anorexia nervosa, medical guardianship, civil commitment, harm reduction, palliative care, end-stage anorexia, physician-assisted death, and more.

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Nature and Nurture in Mental Disorders

Joel Paris, M.D. The book thoughtfully discusses the theories that affect the study of genes, the environment, and their interaction and examines what the empirical evidence reveals about each of these issues. The author posits a biopsychosocial approach—one that acknowledges the role an individual’s predisposing genetic factors, interacting with environmental stressors, play in the etiology of many mental disorders.

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Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes

Mardi J. Horowitz, M.D. This invaluable text teaches clinicians to employ a transtheoretical approach, integrating multiple therapeutic modalities to treat patients who have undergone severe stress. The author emphasizes repeated assessments and formulations that form the foundation for individualized treatment plans.

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