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- The only academic textbook in geriatric psychiatry to use a case-based approach to learning
- Written by experts in the field
- Features learning tools that include case studies, key points, references, suggestions for further reading, review questions, and 200+ tables and illustrations
- Offers excellent preparation for both American and Canadian specialty and subspecialty certification exams
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Written by experts in the field, Geriatric Psychiatry: A Case-Based Textbook is the ultimate resource for graduate and undergraduate medical students and certificate candidates providing mental health care for aging adults, including psychiatrists, psychologists, geriatricians, primary care and family practice doctors, neurologists, social workers, nurses, and others.
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Common Clinical Psychiatric Diagnoses in Late Life
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Special Topics
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ana Hategan, MD
Geriatric Psychiatrist, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
James A. Bourgeois, OD, MD
Chair, Baylor Scott and White Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Temple, Texas, United States
formerly:
Clinical Professor and Director, Psychosomatic Medicine Division, Department of Psychiatry/Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco; UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, San Francisco, California, United StatesCalvin H. Hirsch, MD
Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Pu
blic Health Sciences, Division of General Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United StatesCaroline Giroux, MD, FRCPC
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, California, United StatesBibliographic Information
Book Title: Geriatric Psychiatry
Book Subtitle: A Case-Based Textbook
Editors: Ana Hategan, James A. Bourgeois, Calvin H. Hirsch, Caroline Giroux
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67555-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09804-9Published: 16 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67555-8Published: 03 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 735
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 115 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Neurology, General Practice / Family Medicine, Primary Care Medicine