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Screening for brain dysfunction in psychiatric patients / by Cooper B. Holmes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. : C.C. Thomas, ©1998.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 136 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780398082666
  • 0398082669
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Screening for brain dysfunction in psychiatric patients.DDC classification:
  • 616.8/0475 21
LOC classification:
  • RC455.4.B5 H652 1998
NLM classification:
  • WL 348
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Research on Undiagnosed Brain Dysfunction in Psychiatric Settings -- Ch. 3. The Mental Health Professional in the Screening Process -- Ch. 4. Client History -- Ch. 5. Physical Signs -- Ch. 6. Psychological Signs -- Ch. 7. Psychological Tests in Screening -- Ch. 8. Referring A Client -- Ch. 9. Professional Development.
Summary: This book presents how medical diseases can be misdiagnosed as psychiatric disorders and how clinicians without extensive training in the neurosciences can do a competent job of screening psychiatric clients for possible brain disorders. In the author's work, he has seen over and over again how medical diseases can present with what appear to be classic psychological symptoms. The client is not only misdiagnosed but is then denied the medical treatment he or she needs. The research cited in this book, dating back to the 1890s, establishes beyond a doubt that such misdiagnoses are more common t.
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This book presents how medical diseases can be misdiagnosed as psychiatric disorders and how clinicians without extensive training in the neurosciences can do a competent job of screening psychiatric clients for possible brain disorders. In the author's work, he has seen over and over again how medical diseases can present with what appear to be classic psychological symptoms. The client is not only misdiagnosed but is then denied the medical treatment he or she needs. The research cited in this book, dating back to the 1890s, establishes beyond a doubt that such misdiagnoses are more common t.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-132) and index.

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Research on Undiagnosed Brain Dysfunction in Psychiatric Settings -- Ch. 3. The Mental Health Professional in the Screening Process -- Ch. 4. Client History -- Ch. 5. Physical Signs -- Ch. 6. Psychological Signs -- Ch. 7. Psychological Tests in Screening -- Ch. 8. Referring A Client -- Ch. 9. Professional Development.

Print version record.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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