Tarascon Adult Psychiatrica Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9780763776398 ISBN-10: 0763776394 Copyright: 2012 Edition: 1st Editor: Cobert, Josiane Doody's Expert Review    Score: 91 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Brett Plyler,  M.D.  (Northwestern Memorial Hospital) Description This guide to common adult psychiatric disorders and their treatment is meant to be a handy resource for healthcare providers. Purpose It is a vital portable reference for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with psychiatric illnesses. Audience The target audience includes psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, and other mental health providers, but it would be most useful to residents and medical students in psychiatry as well as some mental health providers. Features The book covers a wide range of topics in psychiatry including epidemiology, diagnostic classification, treatment, psychiatric emergencies, medications, and ethics. The unusual feature of this book is the way it presents the material. It is meant to be portable, but still contain as much as information as possible, so it uses a bullet point format with a great deal of abbreviations and no complete sentences. Tables throughout contain useful, practical information. The section on psychiatric medications is particularly good, but there is little to no in-depth discussion. There are some rare typographical errors. Assessment This is the best book for psychiatric residents or clinicians doing psychiatric consults or inpatient work to carry. It covers an immense amount of material. The chapters are stripped down to the most important, relevant points of almost every topic in psychiatry. The format takes some getting used to, as the typeface is small and the material is presented in a shorthand, abbreviated way. I would recommend it to any mental health professional who wants a quick, portable reference for evaluating and treating most psychiatric illnesses and disorders. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 8 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? N/A 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 4 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 8 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? N/A ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.