This volume summarizes the DSM-5 diagnostic system, various psychiatric disorders and treatments, interviewing and assessment, psychiatric emergencies, legal issues, and more. Other features, such as clinical points, self-assessment questions, and an exhaustive glossary of terms, add to the educational value and enhance learning.

Skills for Communicating with Patients, Third Edition is one of two companion books on improving communication in medicine, which together provide a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning communication skills throughout all levels of medical education in both specialist and family medicine. Since their publication, the first edition of this book and its companion, Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine, have become established standard texts in communication skills te...

Now with Lippincott Connect! Learn more HERE. Renowned for its comprehensive coverage and engaging, storytelling approach, the bestselling Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 9th Edition, guides students from initial anatomy and foundational science courses through clinical training and practice. A popular resource for a variety of programs, this proven text serves as a complete reference, emphasizing anatomy that is important in physical diagnosis for primary care, interpretation of diagnos...

Increasing numbers of general practitioners are discovering the benefits of working with Positive Health. It helps to talk with patients in a different way, with a focus on possibilities rather than on the impossibilities related to a particular health problem. This is good for the patient. And for the general practitioner. But how do we apply Positive Health? This handbook provides useful tools!The book is full of tips, tells the story of how the concept was first developed and gives practic...

When I was younger I didn’t know my value. I thought that when boys liked me more, I would have more value. Or rather: I thought that my value was directly connected to how sexually attractive I was for other people (especially boys). Right now I am 22 years old and I have a boyfriend for a while and I’ve been researching feminist topics for a few years. But I feel like I’m still a victim of the ‘male gaze’. And it’s not only me. A lot of friends that I’m talking to say that the...

Living on Light & Love - My journey to pranic living

What started as a desire for food freedom, free from limiting thoughts and conditioning, miraculously turned into a mind-expanding adventure.

My new attitude to life, of letting go and total acceptance enabled me to take the next step in my ascension process, to no longer depend on the daily, and usual food. Through renouncing, I discovered a true love for everything and in the end even for food.

This book describes the pranic process I w...

My heart would burst

if I kept my poetry

locked inside

So my hands take the key

and I write the words

out of pure necessity

‘Healing through poetry’ is een verzameling van Engelse gedichten over mijn persoonlijke strijd tegen eetstoornissen en depressie. Het gaat echter niet alleen over ziekte, maar ook over herstel. Doorheen mijn verhaal merk je dat mijn negatieve gedachtegang verandert in een positievere mindset die hoop uitstraalt. Ook lees je gedichten die herkenbaar zijn voor iederee...