Behavioral Science: Board Review Series

✍ Scribed by Barbara Fadem

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Edition: Third
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Designed for medical students preparing for USMLE Step 1, FLEX, and course exams. Designed to help you recall and review important information. The content immediately focuses on Board-tested material and drastically reduces the time you spend reviewing.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 11
The Beginning of Life: Pregnancy through Preschool......Page 12
School Age, Adolescence, Special Issues of Development, and Adulthood......Page 24
Aging, Death, and Bereavement......Page 32
Genetics, Anatomy, and Biochemistry of Behavior......Page 40
Biological Assessment of Patients with Psychiatric Symptoms......Page 52
Psychoanalytic Theory......Page 58
Learning Theory......Page 66
Clinical Assessment of Intelligence, Personality, and Achievement......Page 74
Substance Abuse......Page 84
Normal Sleep and Sleep Disorders......Page 98
Mood Disorders......Page 118
Anxiety, Sornatoform and Factitious Disorders, and Malingering......Page 128
Psychiatric Disorders in Children......Page 150
Biologic Therapies: Psychopharmacology and Electroconvulsive Therapy......Page 156
Psychological Therapies......Page 170
The Family, Culture, and Illness......Page 178
Sexuality......Page 186
Aggression and Abuse......Page 199
The Doctor-Patient Relationship......Page 208
Psychosomatic Medicine......Page 218
Legal and Ethical Issues in Medicine......Page 225
Health Care In the United States......Page 237
Statistical Analyses......Page 260
Index......Page 287