This concise multidisciplinary guide is for anyone working with people with mental health conditions, covering the techniques needed for a good psychiatric interview and preparing them for specific groups, presentations and settings. A Guide to Psychiatric Examination covers everything from psychiatric assessment basics through to in-depth topics and how to approach examinations. It is ideal for medical students, registrars and nursing and allied health team professionals and students. Succinct and jargon-free, this is intended as a practical handbook that can be read quickly and consulted as needed to help build confidence and skills. INDICE: Chapter 1.Being interviewed: the psychiatric assessment as a co-constructed relationshipSection 1:The basicsChapter 2.Information gatheringChapter 3.Becoming a skilled interviewerSection 2:The diagnostic psychiatric interviewChapter 4.Preparing for the interviewChapter 5.The diagnostic interviewChapter 6.The mental state examinationChapter 7.Bringing it all togetherChapter 8.Recording and communicating your assessment to othersSection 3:Specific presentationsChapter 9.DepressionChapter 10.The suicidal personChapter 11.ManiaChapter 12.PsychosisChapter 13.AnxietyChapter 14.Obsessive-compulsive symptomsChapter 15.Post-traumatic stress disorderChapter 16.Confusion part 1: deliriumChapter 17.Confusion part 2: dementiaChapter 18. Substance use and addiction behavioursChapter 19.The person with feeding and eating disordersChapter 20.Borderline personality disorderChapter 21. Pregnancy and the postnatal periodChapter 22.The unresponsive personChapter 23.Dealing with a potentially violent personChapter 24. Neurodevelopmental disordersSection 4:Specific placesChapter 25.Assessments in the accident and emergency departmentChapter 26.Assessments in the homeChapter 27.Assessments in the general hospital (or CL unplugged)Section 5:Specific groupsChapter 28.The assessment of children and adolescentsChapter 29.Assessment of older peopleChapter 30.Assessment of people with intellectual disabilitiesChapter 31.Assessment of people from different ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgroundsSection 6:In-depth topicsChapter 32.Personality difficulties Chapter 33.The extended cognitive assessmentChapter 34.Assessment of mental capacityChapter 35.Risk and risk assessmentChapter 36.Assessment of physical healthChapter 37.Changed behaviours in people with dementiaChapter 38.Difficult encountersSection 7:Approaching examinationsChapter 39.Examination skills
- ISBN: 978-0-7295-4397-2
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 842
- Fecha Publicación: 06/07/2021
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés