Clinical manual of pediatric psychosomatic medicine

The Clinical Manual of Palliative Care Psychiatry was written to motivate and guide readers -- whether mental health clinicians or palliative care providers -- to deepen their understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of suffering for the benefit of seriously ill patients and the support of their families. Clinical Manual of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine: Consultation on Physically Ill Children Richard J. Shaw, M.B., B.S. Medical Director, Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service Lucile Packard Children Hospital Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine David Ray DeMaso, M.D. Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Children's Hospital Boston Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School .  · The mental health assessment and treatment of youngsters with physical symptoms and illnesses commonly pose unique and often complex challenges .

Clinical Manual of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine: Consultation on Physically Ill Children Richard J. Shaw, M.B., B.S. Medical Director, Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service Lucile Packard Children Hospital Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine David Ray DeMaso, M.D. Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Children's Hospital Boston Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Table of Contents 1. This annotated bibliography is intended to be a resource in the essentials of pediatric psychosomatic medicine for the psychosomatic-medicine fellow. The publication list provides practical references for multiple clinical issues relevant to children and adolescents with medical illness and includes major developmental considerations, familial interactions, diagnostic categories, and pharmacologic concerns. Written by Richard Shaw and David DeMaso, Clinical Manual of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine helps to navigate these complexities. Introductory chapters describe general principles and techniques of assessment. They discuss forensic issues, particularly the thorny issue of parental consent and its exceptions among pediatric patients.

Now in a thoroughly updated second edition, Clinical Manual of Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry remains the only textbook in the field that. This book covers pediatric psychosomatic medicine as a traditional with other medical disciplines – to a specialty in globally short supply. Dr. DeMaso is George P. Gardner Olga E. Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry and Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School.