Autumn Rights Medical Guide 2019

MENTAL HEALTH
CLINICAL STAGING IN PSYCHIATRY
Making Diagnosis Work for Research and Treatment
Edited by Patrick D. McGorry
University of Melbourne
and Ian B. Hickie
University of Sydney
August 2019
234 x 156 mm 206pp
27 b/w illus. 8 colour
illus. 6 tables
978-1-108-71884-4 Paperback
£44.99
Psychiatric diagnosis is experiencing a crisis of confidence. Current
approaches are outmoded, with reform desperately needed. Clinical staging
is a solution to this crisis. Clinical staging addresses the limitations of current
diagnostic systems by recognising the full continuum or trajectory of mental
illness from asymptomatic to chronic illness. It acknowledges the overlap
between mental health symptoms during early stages and directly links each
stage to treatment and underlying cognitive, neurological and biological
changes. This approach enhances chances of early identification, promotes the
implementation of safer treatments, and increases opportunities to alter the
negative trajectory of mental disorders. This book comprehensively describes
the conceptual basis of clinical staging in psychiatry, details current progress
in identifying biomarkers for each stage, and explores the implications of
staging on treatment and health systems. This book provides a foundation for
transformational reform in psychiatric diagnosis.
WHY IT WILL SELL
• Describes a superior alternative
to traditional and outmoded
diagnostic methods, enabling
readers to understand the
utility and applicability of
staging to psychiatry and how
it addresses current diagnostic
limitations
• Information is relevant to a
broad range of mental health
clinicians, researchers and
students
• Links diagnosis to treatment,
making the information
clinically meaningful
CONTENTS
List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part I. Conceptual and Strategic Issues: 1. Diagnosis
without borders: a pluripotential approach to preventive intervention in emerging mental disorders; 2.
Clinical staging and its potential to enhance mental health care; 3. Time for a change: a more dynamic
perspective on psychopathology; 4. A moving target: how risk for mental disorder can be modelled in
dynamic rather than static term; Part II. Progress with Clinical Staging: 5. The utility of clinical staging
in youth mental health settings: neurobiological and longitudinal data from Sydney-based studies
of transdiagnostic cohorts; 6. Neuroimaging and staging: do disparate mental illnesses have distinct
neurobiological trajectories?; 7. Staging of cognition in psychiatric illness; 8. Neuroinflammation
and staging; 9. Bioactive and inflammatory markers in emerging psychotic disorders; 10.
Electroencephalography and staging; Part III. Novel Treatment Strategies: 11. Novel treatment strategies:
biological; 12. Psychosocial interventions for youth mental health; Part IV. Translational Aspects: 13.
Transforming cultures to enable stage-related care of mental ill health: a youth mental health challenge;
14. The quest for clinical utility and construct validity in psychiatric diagnosis.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Level: medical specialists/consultants, specialist medical trainees
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