BRS Behavioral Science

✍ Scribed by Barbara Fadem

• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer / LWW
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 383
• Series: Board Review Series
• Edition: 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Prepare for success on the USMLE with this up-to-date resource! Offering current coverage of behavioral science, psychiatry, epidemiology, and related courses, this review book prepares you to rapidly recall key information on the mind-body relationship, and apply that knowledge on the day of the exam. Hundreds of USMLE-style questions with detailed answers and explanations help you prepare.

Chapters cover the full range of behavioral science, from growth and development through assessment, specific disorders, therapies, legal and ethical issues, and much more.

Each chapter begins with a “Typical Board Question,” which provides an example of how the subject is tested and familiarizes you with what you’re likely to see on the USMLE.

This edition conforms with the most recent psychiatric classification system, the DSM-5.

More than 700 USMLE-style, clinical vignette questions (many new to this edition), along with detailed answers, are found in Review Tests at the end of each chapter and a Comprehensive Examination at the end of the book.

Written in outline format for efficient review and study.

An interactive online question bank makes it easy for you to create personalized practice tests to gauge your understanding.

✦ Table of Contents

1. The Beginning of Life: Pregnancy Through Preschool
2. School Age, Adolescence, Special Issues of Development, and Adulthood
3. Aging, Death, and Bereavement
4. Genetics, Anatomy, and Biochemistry of Behavior
5. Biological Assessment of Patients with Psychiatric Symptoms
6. Psychoanalytic Theory and Defense Mechanisms
7. Learning Theory
8. Clinical Assessment of Patients with Behavioral Symptoms
9. Substance-Related Disorders
10. Normal Sleep and Sleep Disorders
11. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
12. Depressive Disorders and Bipolar and Related Disorders
13. Anxiety Disorders, Somatic Symptom Disorders, and Related Conditions
14. Neurocognitive, Personality, Dissociative, and Eating Disorders
15. Psychiatric Disorders in Children
16. Biologic Therapies: Psychopharmacology
17. Psychological Therapies
18. The Family, Culture, and Illness
19. Sexuality
20. Aggression and Abuse
21. The Physician-Patient Relationship
22. Psychosomatic Medicine
23. Legal and Ethical Issues in Medicine
24. Health Care in the United States
25. Medical Epidemiology
26. Statistical Analyses
    Comprehensive Examination