Dr. Richard M Yarvis M.D.
Psychiatrist | Forensic Psychiatry
4160 Suisun Valley Rd E322 Fairfield CA, 94534About
Dr. Richard Yarvis is a psychiatrist practicing in Fairfield, CA. Dr. Yarvis is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Yarvis diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Yarvis may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Yarvis treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Suny-Hlth Sci Ctr At Brooklyn, Coll of Med, Brooklyn Ny 1963
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Forensic Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Hubbart v. Superior Court of Santa Clara County.
- Evaluation of crisis intervention.
- Axis I and Axis II diagnostic parameters of homicide.
- Developing comparison groups for community mental health: the utility of community surveys.
- Developing comparison groups for community mental health: the utility of community surveys.
- A classification of criminal offenders through use of current psychoanalytic concepts.
- Psychiatric pathology and social deviance in 25 incarcerated offenders. An assessment.
- Stressful life events and community mental health center patients.
- Stressful life events and community mental health center patients.
- Does patient satisfaction correlate with succes?
- Does patient satisfaction correlate with succes?
- Do community mental health centers underserve psychotic individuals?
- Do community mental health centers underserve psychotic individuals?
- Deinstitutionalization--the Sacramento story.
- Evidence for efficacy of partial hospitalization: data from two studies.
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