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Emotional Intelligence: Achieving Academic and Career Excellence in College and in Life (2nd Edition) / Darwin B. Nelson and Gary R. Low

The second edition of this supplemental text continues to provide students with the tools to cultivate emotionally intelligent behavior for success both inside and outside of the classroom. Through 13 in-depth emotional intelligence skill lessons, new students and first generation students will be guided along practical pathways to student learning and leadership with the aide of caring research-derived advice, helpful illustrations, and experience-based learning opportunities that will help them grow confidence and excel in all aspects of their lives.

Engaging, positive, and learner-centered, the new edition of Emotional Intelligence includes theory-based information on why emotional learning works, real-life examples of emotional intelligence in the classroom, and new findings regarding the importance of meaningful personal learning and leading in the classroom.

The call number location for this book is LB 2343.3 .N45 2011 in the circulating collection of the MCC Library.

PsychiatryOnline: Clinical Manual of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine, by Richard J. Shaw, M.B., B.S., and David R. DeMaso, M.D.

The mental health assessment and treatment of youngsters with physical symptoms and illnesses commonly pose unique and often complex challenges to clinicians. Clinical Manual of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine is the only complete text on the subject, describing an integrative approach to behavioral health problems in children and adolescents who are physically ill, have emotional illness masquerading as physical illness, and have comorbid emotional and physical conditions that complicate the management of each. It brings together information regarding consultation-liaison or psychosomatic work with children into a succinct guide that provides the practitioner with pragmatic ways of organizing the key issues that arise in psychiatric consultation with physically ill children, and it features a set of unique templates to help guide clinical assessment and management.

The authors offer a practical method of mental health consultation in the medical setting and cover topics not included in standard child psychiatry and psychology texts, such as treatment adherence and organ transplantation. Overview chapters include a hands-on approach to the consultation process and pragmatic assessment guidelines. Succeeding chapters then address specific clinical situations, from delirium and mood disorders to organ transplantation and cancer. Additional chapters consider issues related to treatment and intervention: both individual and family psychotherapy, including coping strategies for family members; psychopharmacology; and techniques such as medical hypnosis to help children prepare for procedures. Among the book’s other helpful features are:

* Templates with specific questions for both general psychiatric assessment and specific issues, such as pre-transplant assessment, treatment adherence, and somatoform disorders

* Intensive coverage of pediatric pain assessment and management, including the use of adjunctive psychiatric medications to treat children with chronic pain

* Unique considerations tailored to each topic, such as anxiety symptoms related to specific physical conditions and end-of-life strategies for cancer patients

* Consideration of legal and forensic issues, including consent, confidentiality, and assessment for parenting capacity

* An abundance of quick-reference tables—including psychopharmacological agents used in a wide range of conditions, with indications, doses, and side effects—and flow charts describing step-by-step approaches to pain and somatoform disorders

This practical manual is useful to a wide range of professionals who work with children and adolescents in medical settings. And because psychosomatic medicine has recently received subspecialty status with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, it offers an excellent resource for board examinations.

To access the PsychiatryOnline eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.

On Thursday, September 29, 2011, the Online Catalog will be down from 8:00am – 5:00pm. for maintenance. During this time, you will not be able to search the catalog, place holds, renew books online, or check your account. You will be able to check-out & renew books in person or by telephone.  Please contact the Library Circulation Desk at (254) 299-8325 for assistance with renewals. If you need help finding books or other resources, please contact one of the librarians at (254) 299-8323. This will not affect access to online electronic databases. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

PsychiatryOnline: Clinical Manual of Impulse-Control Disorders, edited by Eric Hollander, M.D., and Dan J. Stein, M.D., Ph.D.

Visibility of impulse-control disorders (ICDs) has never been greater than it is today, both in the field of psychiatry and in popular culture. Changes in both society and technology have contributed to the importance of conceptualizing, assessing, and treating ICDs. The ground-breaking Clinical Manual of Impulse-Control Disorders focuses on all of the different ICDs as a group.

Here, 25 recognized experts provide cutting-edge, concise, and practical information about ICDs, beginning with the phenomenology, assessment, and classification of impulsivity as a core symptom domain that cuts across and drives the expression of these complex disorders. Subsequent chapters discuss

Intermittent explosive disorder, an often overlooked ICD characterized by impulsive aggression.

* Childhood conduct disorder and the antisocial spectrum.

* Self-injurious behavior and its relationship to impulsive aggression and childhood trauma.

* Sexual compulsions and their serious public health implications.

* Binge eating, a highly familial disorder associated with serious medical complications and psychopathology.

* Trichotillomania, which may be related to obsessive-compulsive disorder, skin picking, and nail biting.

* Kleptomania, a heterogeneous disorder that shares features with ICDs as well as with mood, anxiety, and addictive disorders.

* Compulsive shopping, more common in women, with treatments ranging from self-help and financial counseling to trials with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

* Pyromania and how it differs from arson.

* Pathological gambling, a maladaptive behavioral addiction that is increasing in step with legalized and Internet gambling.

* Internet addiction, ranging from excessive seeking of medical information to dangerous sexual behaviors.

The remarkable Clinical Manual of Impulse-Control Disorders sheds light on the complex world of ICDs. As such, it will be welcomed not only by clinicians and researchers but also by individuals and family members coping with these disorders.

To access the PsychiatryOnline eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.

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PsychiatryOnline: The Difficult-to-Treat Psychiatric Patient, edited by Mantosh J. Dewan, M.D., and Ronald W. Pies, M.D.

Why do some psychiatric patients fail to get better, even when in the care of competent clinicians?

Treatment-refractory conditions are all too common in everyday clinical practice. Treatment resistance occurs across the full spectrum of psychiatric disorders, incurring enormous emotional, economic, and social costs. In the United States, treatment of depression alone costs more than $40 billion annually, and as many as 40% of patients with depression have a treatment-refractory form of the illness.

This groundbreaking clinical guide starts where standard textbooks end, focusing on clinical strategies to be used after all basic treatment options, such as medication and psychotherapy, have failed. In this book expert contributors address the sequential clinical steps in treating difficult-to-treat psychiatric patients by offering a blend of evidence-based clinical recommendations, detailed case vignettes, treatment algorithms, and—when necessary to go beyond the reach of evidence—the clinical wisdom of leaders in the field.

The chapters in this user-friendly, practical guide are organized by major disorder. Each chapter offers concrete recommendations on what to do when the usual first steps in therapy are ineffective, including evidence for biopsychosocial treatments alone versus in combination, generic versus specific therapies, and literature reviews and the latest expert wisdom.

Packed with up-to-date information of immediate relevance, this volume will prove invaluable in both classroom and clinical practice, for everyone from beginning interns and residents to experienced psychiatric and medical practitioners and social workers.

To access the PsychiatryOnline eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.

Due to budget cuts in the TexShare program, Gale’s Health & Wellness Resource Center database is longer be available. Gale continues to be a valued TexShare partner, and will continue to provide Health Reference Center Academic, Literature Resource Center, Twayne’s Authors Series, Scribner Writers and InfoTrac Newsstand.

PsychiatryOnline: Clinical Manual of Women’s Mental Health by Vivien K. Burt, M.D., Ph.D., and Victoria C. Hendrick, M.D.

This comprehensive update of the popular second edition of the authors’ Concise Guide to Women’s Mental Health provides the latest evidence-based medical and psychiatric facts related to the assessment and treatment of women with psychiatric disorders—particularly as women pass through reproductive transitions or experience hormonal challenges—reviewing the ways in which these times are integral to gender-sensitive case formulations, diagnoses, and treatment planning.

The Clinical Manual of Women’s Mental Health emphasizes evidence-based medicine and reflects the authors’ expanding clinical experience. Key features include

• Extensively revised chapters on the use of psychiatric medications during pregnancy and breast-feeding, abortion and contraception, and the use of hormones during menopause.
• A meticulous review of the use of psychopharmacological agents to treat women at important reproductive transition points.
• Numerous and thorough references and citations from the latest peer-reviewed journals.
• More than 50 carefully annotated tables and charts—especially those on the use of psychiatric medications in pregnancy and breast-feeding.
• Summary passages that enable readers to quickly gain access to important evidence-based data that will inform their practice.

Asserting that a multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach—one that incorporates both psychotherapy and careful attention to social needs—is integral to successful treatment, the authors of Clinical Manual of Women’s Mental Health discuss the latest data on women’s mental health, including premenstrual dysphoric disorder, hormonal contraception and effects on mood, mood/anxiety/psychotic disorders during pregnancy and postpartum, the effect of breast-feeding on the treatment of postpartum disorders, perimenopause and menopause, postmenopause, psychological implications of infertility, abortion and miscarriage, female-specific cancers, and gender issues in the treatment of mental illness.

Easily accessed by clinicians at every level of medicine, psychiatry, obstetrics-gynecology, psychology, and social work, the Clinical Manual of Women’s Mental Health is best used as an ancillary text for students, interns, residents, and graduated clinicians and researchers in psychiatry, family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine subspecialties, and obstetrics-gynecology.

Finally, lay women with psychiatric conditions who wish to better understand how they can make wise decisions regarding their care and well-being as they face important issues such as pregnancy, breast-feeding, and hormone therapy will welcome this updated edition of the Clinical Manual of Women’s Mental Health.

To access the PsychiatryOnline eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.

PsychiatryOnline: Clinical Manual for Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
by Robert A. Kowatch, M.D., Mary A. Fristad, Ph.D., ABPP, Robert L. Findling, M.D., and Robert M. Post, M.D.

Clinical Manual for Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents was written in response to the growing body of knowledge surrounding pediatric bipolar illness and the underlying biological, environmental, and psychosocial influences that exacerbate symptoms and behavior. Written to provide clinically useful information about diagnosis and management, this manual is a comprehensive collection of empirical evidence, case studies, and the growing number of evidence-based reports on pediatric bipolar disorder over the past five years.

The many new developments in the field of pediatric bipolar disorder are affirming what this manual emphasizes—that a combination of family and cognitive-behavior therapy can work in tandem with medical treatments to help young bipolar disorder patients achieve a more balanced life and a greater chance of controlling this illness later in life. The manual demonstrates how the medical community has shifted from asking, “Does bipolar disorder really exist in children and adolescents” to “How can we best predict, diagnose and treat this serious medical disorder” through a review of 25 years of study and insight.

To access the PsychiatryOnline eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.

Stress-induced and fear circuitry disorders: advancing the research agenda for DSM-V
Edited by: Gavin Andrews, Dennis S. Charney, Paul J. Sirovatka

As disorders in which stress or fear play major roles present an increasing need for psychiatric care around the world, this volume summarizes current research to determine whether a specific group of stress-induced and fear-based disorders form a distinct syndrome independent from other anxiety disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder or generalized anxiety. Intended to suggest DSM-V revisions regarding the classification of these disorders, Stress-Induced and Fear Circuitry Disorders reflects findings that may lead to more refined treatments for these specific anxiety disorders based on a better understanding of the biological and environmental factors that contribute to their development and symptoms.

Thirty contributors, all international authorities on this group of mental illnesses, clarify how these disorders develop and what factors contribute to symptomatology. Focusing on posttraumatic stress disorder, panic disorder and agoraphobia, social phobias, and specific phobia, the authors explore the possibility of linking the classification and etiology of these conditions by showing that they may be closely related in terms of brain pathophysiology. In addition to assessing the stability of disorders across patient lifespans and determining whether they form a cohesive and distinct group, the authors examine shared etiologies and biopsychosocial correlates, as well as aspects unique to each disorder.

To access the PsychiatryOnline eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.