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The Family Guide to Mental Health Care
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Artikel-Nr:
9780393710632
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.01.2015
Seiten:
336
Autor:
Lloyd I. Sederer
Gewicht:
454 g
Format:
224x142x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD, is Medical Director of the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH), the nation's largest state mental health system and New York State's "chief psychiatrist." He is Adjunct Professor at the Columbia/Mailman School of Public Health and has served as Acting Director of The Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Rockland County, New York. Dr. Sederer is a former Medical Director and Executive Vice President of McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, one of the world's foremost psychiatric hospitals, and a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, where he also served on the faculty.
The Family Guide to Mental Health Care is the first comprehensive print resource for the millions of people who have loved ones suffering from some kind of mental illness. In this book, families can find the answers to their most urgent questions. What medications are helpful and are some as dangerous as I think? Is there a way to navigate privacy laws so I can discuss my adult daughter's treatment with her doctor? Is my teenager experiencing typical adolescent distress or an illness? From understanding depression, bipolar illness and anxiety to eating and traumatic disorders, schizophrenia, and much more readers will learn what to do and how to help.