Free (DRM-free) Functional Disorders & Medically Unexplained Symptoms [Health Care]

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Functional Disorders and Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Assessment and treatment edited by Per Fink & Marianne Rosendal, translated by Morten Pilegaard, is a specialized medical reference textbook for assorted professional health caregivers, presenting techniques based upon the results of whatever goes on at The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics, Aarhus University Hospital, with some tips on cultivating the doctor-patient relationship as well, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Aarhus University Press in Denmark.

This is their featured English-language Free Book of the Month for April, and according to the blurb, has won a specialty award.

Currently free throughout April directly @ the university's dedicated promo page (DRM-free PDF available worldwide, approx 3 mb), and you can read more about the book on its regular catalogue page.

Description
This book is based on extensive research in assessment and treatment of patients with functional disorders and provides a thorough background to functional disorders as well as the etiology, classification and treatment of the disorders. The book primarily targets clinicians in primary care, non-psychiatric specialties and other health care professionals. The chapters combine research and clinical experience and also provide techniques that can be applied in daily clinical practice, both in terms of identifying the patients as well as helping the patients to better cope with their disorder.

The highly structured hands-on treatment programme described in the book is now a compulsory part of the specialist training of Danish primary care psysicians and has won the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine's Alan Stoudemire Award for Innovation and Excellence in Psychosomatic Medicine Education.

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Just a reminder that this will probably be the last day to pick up the freebie, if you think you might be interested.