Textbook in Psychiatric Epidemiology

Psychiatric epidemiology is the study of the incidence, prevalence, outcome, and response to intervention of psychiatric disorders in terms of environmental, biological, and demographic factors. A primary goal of the discipline is to discover the cause and pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders. The Second Edition of Textbook in Psychiatric Epidemiology will continue to be the only comprehensive overview of the concepts, methods, and research advances in the field. Completely revised based on the enormous advances since publication of the first edition, the Textbook now includes new chapters on child psychiatry, community studies, and perinatal studies. Requiring no formal clinical training or extensive knowledge of quantitative research methods, it is still the only rigorous introduction to psychiatric epidemiology available. The Second Edition: Provides an overview of basic research strategies and analytic methods in psychiatric epidemiology Includes discussions on assessment and diagnosis as well as epidemiologic evidence for major psychiatric disorders Covers research strategies for studying genetic and environmental risk factors Is logically divided into three main sections on study designs and methods, assessment, and epidemiology of major psychiatric disorders Chapter topics include research designs, analysis of categorized data, assessing reliability and validity, and selection of the right diagnostic instrument. Researchers, instructors, medical school students, and psychiatric residents, as well as graduate students in epidemiology, psychology, and allied mental health disciplines, will find the Second Edition a vital resource.