The Shrinklady Demystifies Psychiatry - Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Common Sense and Artistic Flourishes
( General Notes from the Shrinklady )
Chapter 2: You Gotta Have a System
( The Frontline Questionnaire )
Chapter 3: It's Sorta Like Veterinary Medicine
( The Frontline Child Questionnaire )
Chapter 4: Wheat, Chaff, Hope & Delbertisms
( Targeted Interviewing )
Chapter 5: Bulldogs and Phallic Symbols
( The Mental Status Examination )
Chapter 6: I'd Rather Be Run Over By a Truck
( Unipolar Depression )
Chapter 7: Don't Reach for That Prescription Pad Yet!
( Bipolar Disorder )
Chapter 8: "Worrywart" Doesn't Even Begin to Describe It ( Clinical Anxiety Disorders )
Chapter 9: Flibbertijibbets and Scatterbrains
( Attention Deficit Disorder )
Chapter 10: "Everybody's Crazy"; Its Just a Matter of Degree ( Dealing with Psychotic Symptoms )
Chapter 11: "Slip-Sliding Away"
( Dementia )
Chapter 12: Hodge-Podge
( A Junk Drawer of Clinical Odds & Ends )
Chapter 13: First, Kill All the Lawyers
( Shakespeare Would Love These Jokes )

Table of Contents For Appendix

1. Frontline Questionnaire
2. Frontline Child Questionnaire
3. Helping Yourself Feel Better
4. The Mood Disorder Questionnaire
5. Mood Disorder Questionnaire Modified for Children
6. The Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale
7. Diagrams of Psychiatric Illness
8. Monitoring Checklist
9. Switching Meds (Tapering Off __________ While Starting __________ )
10. Treatment Plan for Bipolar Disorder, Agitated Type, Adolescents & Adults
11. Treatment Plan for Bipolar Disorder, Predominantly Depressed, Adolescents & Adults
12. Treatment Plan for Unipolar Depression
13. Treatment Plan for Depression Complicated by Alcohol Use
14. PRN Use of Calming Medicine
15. Augmentation Strategy for Treatment-Resistant Unipolar Depression
16. Treatment Plan for Clinical Anxiety
17. Treatment Plan for ADHD in Children
18. Treatment Plan for ADHD in Adolescents & Adults
19. Activities of Daily Living Disability Evaluation
20. AIMS (Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale) Examination Procedure
21. Vanderbilt Teacher Evaluation Scale
22. Pharmaceutical Patient Assistance Programs