Making Sense of the Senseless: How to Gather and Organize Pertinent Information -- The Approach to Diagnostic Ambiguity -- What The Patient Isn't Telling You : When Seeing is Not Believing -- Shared Decision Making -- Deciding On Appropriate Treatment Modalities : Medication, Psychotherapy, Hospitalization and Other Levels of Care -- measurement Based Care and Applying Statistical Concepts to the Individual Patient -- Hypothesis testing and Crafting Patient-Specific Decision Trees -- Decision Points in Iterative Pharmacotherapy -- Hierarchical and Complex Pharmacotherapy Decision-Making -- Prioritizing the Components of Any Decision-Making Model.

Includes bibliographical references.

"A practical, user-friendly book providing clear strategies to help psychiatric practitioners reason through therapeutic and management options, construct back-up plans, incorporate shared decision-making, and devise personalized treatment algorithms using all therapeutic modalities. Featuring summary tables and illustrative case vignettes" -- Provided by publisher.