Cognitive Assessment
Cognitive Assessment Graham E. Powell Principles of assessment Assessment, testing, or measurement is the evaluation of the individual in numerical or categorical terms, adhering to a range of statistical and…
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Assessment of Personality
Assessment of Personality C. Robert Cloninger Introduction The assessment of personality provides the context needed to understand someone as a whole person with particular goals and values that they pursue…
The Principles of Clinical Assessment in General Psychiatry
The Principles of Clinical Assessment in General Psychiatry John E. Cooper Margaret Oates Introduction This chapter is focused on the needs of the clinician in a service for general adult…
Descriptive Phenomenology
Descriptive Phenomenology Andrew Sims Principles of descriptive phenomenology Definitions and explanations Psychopathology is the systematic study of abnormal experience, cognition, and behaviour. It includes the explanatory psychopathologies, where there are…
The Psychiatrist as a Manager
The Psychiatrist as a Manager Juan J. López-Ibor Jr. Costas Stefanis Introduction: integrating two perspectives The past years have witnessed the introduction and implementation of strict macro and micro economical…
Values and Values-Based Practice in Clinical Psychiatry
Values and Values-Based Practice in Clinical Psychiatry K. W. M. Fulford Introduction Values-based practice is a new skills-based approach to working more effectively with complex and conflicting values in health…
Psychiatric Ethics
Psychiatric Ethics Sidney Bloch Stephen Green A myriad of ethical problems pervade clinical practice and research in psychiatry. Yet with few exceptions,(1, 2 and 3) psychiatric ethics has generally been…
The History of Psychiatry as a Medical Specialty
The History of Psychiatry as a Medical Specialty Pierre Pichot Introduction In 1918, Emil Kraepelin wrote:(1) A hundred years ago, they were practically no alienists. The care of the mental…
Transcultural Psychiatry
Transcultural Psychiatry Julian Leff Clinical relevance of transcultural psychiatry With the mass movements of populations that have characterized the second half of the twentieth century, there can be few psychiatrists…
Mental Disorders as a Worldwide Public Health Issue
Mental Disorders as a Worldwide Public Health Issue Benedetto Saraceno Magnitude and burden of mental disorders The twentieth century has witnessed significant improvements in somatic health in most countries. A…
