Commissioned by the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence, UK, this is the updated national clinical guideline on core interventions in the treatment and management of schizophrenia in adults in primary and secondary care. The goals of the guideline are to improve access and engagement with treatment and services for people with schizophrenia; evaluate the role of specific psychological, psychosocial, pharmacological, and service-level interventions for treatment of schizophrenia; integrate information on interventions in order to provide best-practice advice for family and carers; and promote clinical practice recommendations tailored to the requirements of the National Health Service in England and Wales. The CD-ROM contains evidence tables for economic studies discussed in the text, study characteristic tables, clinical evidence forest plots and data tables, and information on the previous guideline methodology. Distributed in the US by Publishers Storage and Shipping Company, Fitchburg, MA. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)