Behavioral science in medicine /
Behavioral science in medicine introduces medical students to the science of human behavior. Organized to mirror the behavioral science/psychiatry course taught in the first two years, this text effectively teaches the major concepts of this complex subject and prepares students for board exams. The...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The beginning of life : pregnancy through preschool
- School age and adolescence
- The challenges of early and middle adulthood
- Aging, death, and bereavement
- Genetics, anatomy, and biochemistry of behavior
- Biological assessment of patients with psychiatric symptoms
- Sleep
- Psychodynamic factors in behavior
- Learning theory
- Psychological assessment of patients with behavioral symptoms
- Psychological therapies
- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
- Mood disorders
- Suicide
- Anxiety disorders and related disorders
- Somatoform disorders, factitious disorders, and malingering
- Obesity and eating disorders
- Cognitive and dissociative disorders
- Biological therapies
- Culture and illness
- Human sexuality
- Violence, impulse control disorders, and abuse
- Substance abuse
- Doctor-patient communication
- Psychosomatic medicine
- Ethical and legal issues in medicine
- Systems of health care delivery
- Appendix : medical epidemiology and biostatistics.
