CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, Second Edition is a concise treatment of the entire field of psychiatric medicine. It is comprehensive in scope covering all areas of psychiatric illness in both adults and children. New to this edition is a section on psychiatric practice in special settings such as the emergency department, the hospital, and social-work settings. The book begins with a section on the principles of evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients with the full spectrum of treatments from drugs to behavior therapy to psychoanalysis. Sections on adult and pediatric psychiatric problems follow and make up the core of the book. A final section on special settings in which psychiatrists may practice wraps up the book.