The Washington Mutual® Psychiatry Survival Guide is a quick reference for the hospital practice of psychiatric medicine in the inpatient psychiatric, consultation, and emergency settings.

Each section addresses the most frequently encountered problems in these clinical settings and offers practical suggestions on how to obtain information, generate reasonable differential diagnoses, discriminate among diagnoses, and document clinical decisions.

The Washington Mutual® Psychiatry Survival Guide includes "Style Pointer" sections on patient interview skills and ED Rounds that outline clinical reasoning algorithms in the emergency setting.

Class Notes sections explain how to concisely and thoroughly document patient encounters, emphasizing difficult medical-legal situations.

Contents:

1. So You Want to Be a Psychiatrist ...
   1. Keys to Survival
   2. Approach to the Psychiatric Patient
   3. Psychiatric Consultation

2. Common Psychiatric Diagnoses
   4. Delirium
   5. Dementia
   6. Substance-Related Disorders
   7. Mood Disorders
   8. Anxiety Disorders
   9. Psychotic Disorders
   10. Somatoform Disorders, Factitious Disorder, and Malingering
   11. Personality Disorders

3. Difficult Situations
   12. Suicide Risk Assessment
   13. The Agitated, Assaultive, or Homicidal Patient
   14. Seclusion, Restraint, Commitment, Capacity, and Competency

4. Appendices
   1. Formulary
   2. Adverse Drug Events and Side Effects
   3. Electroconvulsive Therapy
   4. Orders and Notes
   5. Evaluating Clinical Outcome Studies
   6. DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria
   7. Standardized Assessment Tools
   8. Patient Data Tracking Form

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