The American Psychiatric Association's evidence-based practice guidelines project has published 12 guidelines since 1993. APA's practice guidelines have been widely acclaimed as comprehensive and scholarly documents and are increasingly being used in residency education, certification examinations, utilization review, and, most important, clinical decision making by psychiatrists. Although the practice guidelines provide detailed recommendations for treatment and comprehensively describe the evidence to support those recommendations, their length and format do not allow for easy use in the psychiatrist's day-to-day work with patients. To meet this need, the quick reference guides were developed to facilitate the clinical use of APA's practice guidelines by physicians. Each quick reference guide presents the major recommendations and their sequencing with enough detail to be both clinically helpful and practical to use. This compendium contains 10 quick reference guides: Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias of Late Life Borderline Personality Disorder Bipolar Disorder Delirium Eating Disorders HIV/AIDS Major Depressive Disorder Panic Disorder Substance Use Disorders Schizophrenia Concise yet comprehensive, this compendium of guides is an indispensable reference for every clinician who treats patients with mental disorders.

Contains Quick Reference Guides (QRGs) to all of the published APA Practice Guidelines. QRGs are created by abstracting the crucial information from the text of the full guideline, with greatest emphasis placed on retaining the material most directly relevant to the treatment decision making, and are intended for day-to-day work with patients. This compendium contains 10 quick reference guides: Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias of Late Life Borderline Personality Disorder Bipolar Disorder Delirium Eating Disorders HIV/AIDS Major Depressive Disorder Panic Disorder Schizophrenia Suicide Each guide is derived from the full text of a practice guideline developed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and published originally in "The American Journal of Psychiatry," The purpose of these QRGs is to facilitate clinical use of APA's practice guidelines by physicians. Although the practice guidelines provide detailed recommendations for treatment and comprehensively describe the evidence to support those recommendations, their length and text format do not allow for easy use in the psychiatrist's day-to-day work with patients. hese guidelines help you: Understand clinical features and symptoms Make a confident differential diagnosis Evaluate interventions commonly used to treat specific disorders Select the appropriate site of service Educate the patient and family Assess the efficacy and risks of available medications Develop an individualized treatment plan Central to proper use of these QRGs is recognition that they do not stand alone. The psychiatrist using them should be familiar with the full-text practice guideline on which each QRG is based. For clarification of arecommendation or for a review of the evidence supporting a particular strategy, the psychiatrist will find it helpful to return to the guideline. With rare exception the QRG faithfully reflects the content of the guideline. Exceptions are specifically noted in the QRG. Each quick reference guide presents the major recommendations and their sequencing with enough detail to be both clinically helpful and practical to use.

American Psychiatric Association (APA) practice guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations for the assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Practice guidelines are intended to assist in clinical decision making by presenting systematically developed patient care strategies in a standardized format.

Practice Guidelines provide a comprehensive synthesis of available information relevant to the clinical topic. This volume collects in one place eleven of the APA's published Practice Guidelines. Includes helpful introductory material and a cumulative index.

A practical, easy-to-use, and comprehensive reference for mental health professionals The Mental Health Desk Reference is the ultimate guide to effective and responsible mental health practice. It provides authoritative, concise, and up-to-date information from more than seventy experts regarding diagnosis, treatment, and ethics of practice. Each entry summarizes key constructs and terminology associated with the topic, major findings from research, and specific recommendations on theory and practice. Important topics covered include: * Adjustment disorders and life stress * Diagnosis and treatment of adults * Diagnosis and treatment of children * Crisis intervention * Diverse populations * Group and family interventions * Practice management * Professional issues * Ethical and legal issues * Professional resources These detailed, readable entries-based on the most extensive and reliable research available-form a comprehensive, straightforward, and quick-reference resource applicable to practitioners across every field in mental health. The Mental Health Desk Reference is the single resource no mental health professional can afford to be without.