Clinical reasoning and decision-making in psychiatry / Joseph F. Goldberg, Stephen M. Stahl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Joseph F., 1963- author.

Stahl, Stephen M. 1951- author.

Series:

Cambridge medicine (Series)

Cambridge medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Diagnosis.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 316 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Mental health professionals routinely make treatment decisions without necessarily having an overarching perspective about optimal next steps. This important new book provides them with reader-friendly, pragmatic strategies to approach clinical problems as testable hypotheses. It discusses how to apply concepts based on decision analytic theory using risk-benefit analyses, contingency planning, measurement-based care, shared decision making, pharmacogenetics, disease staging, and machine learning. Readers will learn how these tools can help them craft optimal pharmacological and psychosocial interventions tailored to the needs of an individual patient. The book covers topics such as diagnostic ambiguity, interview technique, applying statistical concepts to individual patients, artificial intelligence, and managing high-risk, treatment-resistant, or demanding and difficult patients. Valuable clinical vignettes are featured throughout the book to illustrate common dilemmas and scenarios where the relative merits of competing treatment options invite a more iterative than definitive approach. For all healthcare professionals who prescribe psychotropic medications.

Contents:

Making Sense of the Senseless : How to Gather and Organize Pertinent Information

The Approach to Diagnostic Ambiguity

What The Patient Isn't Telling You : When Seeing is Not Believing

Shared Decision Making

Deciding On Appropriate Treatment Modalities : Medication, Psychotherapy, Hospitalization and Other Levels of Care

Measurement Based Care and Applying Statistical Concepts to the Individual Patient

Hypothesis Testing and Crafting Patient-Specific Decision Trees

Decision Points in Iterative Pharmacotherapy

Hierarchical and Complex Pharmacotherapy Decision-Making

Prioritizing the Components of Any Decision-Making Model.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Mar 2024).

ISBN:

9781009191296

1009191292

9781009181549

1009181548

OCLC:

1417600527