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Here's a succinct, hands-on guide to interviewing and assessing people with psychiatric disorders! Written by practicing psychiatrists, it clearly explains how to gather clinical data while empowering patients and gaining their trust. Consistently organized chapters and step-by-step guidance make it easy for readers to conduct successful psychiatric interviews, make definitive diagnoses, and establish therapeutic alliances with their patients. Focuses on the practical skills readers need most - "what to ask" and "how to ask it". Provides diagnostic criteria from the DSM-IV-TR when relevant. Explains how to apply ratings scales for both diagnosis and symptom severity to clinical practice. Discusses psychiatric interviews in the full range of settings: clinic, inpatient unit, emergency room, and home. Helps readers interview patients of diverse cultural, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. Integrates the knowledge and experience of a respected team of senior academic subspecialty clinicians. Presents a wealth of reader-friendly features, including clinical vignettes, chapter overviews, key-point boxes, and an informal writing style. Includes selected references and suggested readings in each chapter.
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Physical therapy --- Role --- Organization and Administration --- Group Processes --- Health Services Administration --- Health Care --- Psychology, Social --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Professional Role --- Professional Practice --- Vocational guidance
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"Those who ask whether mental processes can extend beyond the brain and into the world may seem to be asking ẁhere is my mind?' Mark Rowlands instead replaces questions about the location of cognition with a process-based vision of the mind as a complex set of activities distributed across brain, body, and world. His integrative and original book demonstrates that the cognitive sciences already treat mental processes as amalgamations of disparate neural, bodily, and environmental resources. It brings a new level of precision to the case for the extended mind." John Sutton, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University" "Mark Rowlands insightfully draws from resources in both early analytic philosophy and phenomenology to defend recent conceptions of embodied and extended cognition. He presents convincing arguments to show that, at its core, intentionality involves a transcendental disclosure of the world, and then remarkably shows that the transcendental is characteristic of a mind that is an amalgamation of brain, body, and environment. He thus lays out a brilliant strategy to defeat all of the neurocentric naysayers with respect to the extended---or, in Rowland's terms, the amalgamated---mind." Shaun Gallagher, Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences, University of Central Florida and University of Hertfordshire" "In the New Science of the Mind Mark Rowlands sets out an exciting combination of embodied and extended cognition which he calls the amalgamated mind. Rowlands convincingly argues that the new science of the mind will concern itself with explaining mental processes as amalgamations of neural, bodily, and environmental processes. This book stakes out important new territory and is sure to have a major impact on the future of the field." Richard Menary, The University of Wollongong". "There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exlusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands investigates the conceptual foundations of this new science of the mind." "Traditional attempts to study the mind are based on the idea that mental processes---perceiving, remembering, thinking, reasoning---exist in brains; they are often described as "software" realized by the "hardware" of the brain. The new way of thinking about the mind has emerged from the confluence of various disciplines in cognitive science ranging from perceptual and developmental psychology to robotics. It emphasizes the ways in which mental processes are embodied (made up partly of extraneural bodily structures and processes), embedded (designed to function in tandem with the environment), enacted (constituted in part by action), and extended (located in the environment)." "The new way of thinking about the mind, Rowlands writes, is actually an old way of thinking that has taken on new form. Rowlands describes a conception of mind that had its clearest expression in phenomenology---in the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. He builds on these views, clarifies and renders consistent the ideas of embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended mind, and develops a unified philosophical treatment of the novel conception of the mind that underlies the new science of the mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Cognitive psychology --- Theory of knowledge --- Cognitive science. --- Mental Processes. --- Philosophy, Medical. --- Cognitive science --- Philosophy --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Humanities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Philosophy, Medical --- Mental Processes --- Social Sciences --- Psychology --- Science --- Philosophy of mind --- PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General
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What is the relationship between common-sense, or 'folk', psychology and contemporary scientific psychology? Are they in conflict with one another? Or do they perform quite different, though perhaps complementary, roles? George Botterill and Peter Carruthers discuss these questions, defending a robust form of realism about the commitments of folk psychology and about the prospects for integrating those commitments into natural science. Their focus throughout the book is on the ways in which cognitive science presents a challenge to our common-sense self-image - arguing that our native conception of the mind will be enriched, but not overturned, by science. The Philosophy of Psychology is designed as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in philosophy and cognitive science, but as a text that not only surveys but advances the debates on the topics discussed, it will also be of interest to researchers working in these areas.
Philosophical anthropology --- Psychology --- Philosophy. --- Psychology. --- Psychology - Philosophy. --- Mental Processes --- Humanities --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Behavioral Sciences --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Philosophy --- Cognitive Science --- Cognition --- Psychological Theory --- Social Sciences --- Arts and Humanities
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Philosophie und Psychiatrie teilen viele Problemfelder und Fragestellungen. So zeitigen z.B. die "Lösungen" der Psychiatrie des philosophischen Leib-Seele-Problems direkte Auswirkungen auf das Selbstverständnis der Disziplin. Trotz dieser offensichtlichen Überschneidungen wurde im Vergleich zum angelsächsischen Sprachraum in Deutschland bislang wenig interdisziplinäre Forschung zur "philosophischen Psychopathologie" betrieben. Die vorliegende Anthologie schließt diese Lücke, denn die Autoren - sowohl ausgewiesene Fachleute als auch junge Wissenschaftler, die mit neuen Ansätzen zukunftsträchtige Perspektiven eröffnen - kommen aus beiden Disziplinen. Die einzelnen Beiträge setzen sich mit philosophischen Debatten auseinander, wie sie sich im Kontext psychiatrischer Theorie und Praxis ergeben. Philosophy and psychiatry share many topics and problems. For example, the "solutions" of the psychiatry of the philosophical body-soul problem have direct effects on the self-image of the discipline. Despite these obvious overlappings, and unlike the English-speaking countries, interdisciplinary research on "philosophical psychopathology" has been scarce in Germany. The current anthology closes these gaps, because the authors - renowned experts as well as young scientists, whose new approaches open promising perspectives - come from both disciplines. The individual contributions deal with philosophical debates as they arise within the context of psychiatric theory and practice.
Philosophy. --- Psychiatry -- Philosophy. --- Psychiatry --- Behavioral Sciences --- Medicine --- Humanities --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Health Occupations --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Philosophy --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychiatry - General --- Psychology and philosophy --- Psychologie et philosophie --- Psychiatrie --- Philosophie --- Mental philosophy --- Psychiatry.
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MEDICAL --- Research --- Clinical medicine --- Communication --- Decision Making --- Thinking --- Information Science --- Science --- Behavior --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Mental Processes --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Medical Research --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Research. --- Medicine, Clinical
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Understanding how memories are induced and maintained is one of the major outstanding questions in modern neuroscience. This is difficult to address in the mammalian brain due to its enormous complexity, and invertebrates offer major advantages for learning and memory studies because of their relative simplicity. Many important discoveries made in invertebrates have been found to be generally applicable to higher organisms, and the overarching theme of the proposed will be to integrate information from different levels of neural organization to help generate a complete account of learning a
Invertebrates -- Behavior. --- Invertebrates -- Physiology. --- Invertebrates --- Psychology, Educational --- Mental Processes --- Animals --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Psychology, Applied --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Learning --- Memory --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Invertebrates & Protozoa --- Behavior --- Nervous system --- Behavior. --- Nervous system. --- Invertebrata --- 592 --- 592 Invertebrata --- Psychobiology.
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Ira Reiss presents to those interested in the work of sexual science a view of this field. The text provides a personal account of the author's experiences in sexual science that helps the reader understand many of the major issues that confront those insexual science.
Sexology --- Sexology. --- Research. --- Sexology -- Research. --- Humanities --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Behavioral Sciences --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- History --- History, 20th Century --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Research --- Sex --- Sex research
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This book is both a set of procedures for the therapist and a philosophy- one that is shared with clients and one that guides the work of the therapist. This 2nd edition continues its excellence in offering clinicians a guide to doing what works in brief therapy--for whom, and when and how to use it. Psychotherapy that follows these guidelines validates the client's most important concerns - and it often turns out to be surprisingly brief. Author Ellen Quick integrates strategic and solution focused therapy and includes guidelines for tailoring technique and interventions to client characteris
Solution-focused brief therapy. --- Strategic therapy. --- Psychotherapy --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Psychotherapy, Brief --- Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- SFBT (Solution-focused brief therapy) --- Brief psychotherapy --- Solution-focused therapy
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