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Assessing the Patient
History and Mental Status Examination
A Companion to Fish's Clinical Psychopathology
Glossary On-Line: Psychiatry
American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults (PDF)
Ophthalmoscopy
Practicing Psychiatry
Five Tips for Generating Patient Satisfaction and Compliance
How Technology Will Affect Your Practice
Improving Telephone Management in Your Practice
Making Every Minute Count: Tools to Improve Office Efficiency
Establishing Rules of the Road for Pharmaceutical Representatives
Is 'Routine' Laboratory Testing a Thing of the Past?
Practice Guidelines for Psychiatric Consultation in the General Medical Setting
Should Psychiatrists Perform Physical Examinations?
Criteria for Short-Term Treatment of Acute Psychiatric Illness (PDF)
Caring for Adults with Mental Disabilities
New Approaches to Preventing Incarceration of Severely Mentally Ill Adults
Management of the Difficult Patient
Breaking Bad News to Patients
Safety for Trainees in Psychiatry (PDF)
Creating a High-Performing Clinical Team
Psychiatric Ethics
Guidelines for the Promotion of Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disorders (PDF)
United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness
Clinical Uses and Ethical Implications of Psychiatric Genetic Counseling
Patient-Therapist Boundary Issues
Ethical Issues in Forensic Psychiatry with Children and Adolescents
Psychiatric Specialties
Transcultural Psychiatry for Clinical Practice
The Case for Cosmetic Psychiatry: Treatment Without Diagnosis
Forensic Psychiatry as a Specialty
Setting Up a Forensic Psychiatry Practice
Forensic Issues in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
New Ways of Integrating Psychiatry and Medicine
Psychotherapy & Psychiatry
Efficacy and Cost Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapies and the Practice of Psychiatry (PDF)
Evidence Based Psychotherapy
Group Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders: an Introduction
Assertive Community Treatment for People with Severe Mental Illness (PDF)
Motivational Interviewing and Clinical Psychiatry
Some Other Issues
Treatment of the Mentally Ill Physician
Gender Bias in Psychiatric Textbooks
Discontinuing treatment for psychiatric disorders (PDF)
"Quality of Life": a Brand New Concept for Research and Practice in Psychiatry
Quality-Of-Life Issues in Mental Health Care: Past, Present, and Future (PDF)
Changing the practice of physical restraint use in acute care
Doctors and Torture
Psychiatry in the Cinema
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