Unsure how to 'do' psychiatry? Wondering what psychiatry is all about? Want just the key facts? Lecture Notes: Psychiatry provides essential, practical, and up-to-date information for students who are learning to conduct psychiatric interviews and assessments, understand the core psychiatric disorders, their aetiology and evidence-based treatment options. It incorporates the latest NICEguidelines and systematic reviews, and includes coverage of the Mental Capacity Act and the new Mental Health Act. Featuring case studies throughout, it isperfect for clinical preparation with example questions to ask patients during clinical rotations. Each chapter features bulleted key points, while the summary boxes and self-test MCQs ensure Lecture Notes: Psychiatry is the ideal resource, whether you are just beginning to develop psychiatric knowledge and skills or preparing for an end-of-year exam INDICE: Preface. 1 Getting Started. 2 The core psychiatric assessment. 3 Psychiatric assessment modules. 4 Risk: harm, self-harm and suicide. 5 Completing and communicating the assessment. 6 Aetiology. 7 Treatment. 8 Psychiatric services and specialties. 9 Mood disorders. 10 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders. 11 Eating, sleep and sexual disorders. 12 Schizophrenia. 13Organic psychiatric disorders. 14 Substance misuse. 15 Personality disorders.16 Childhood disorders. 17 Learning disability (mental retardation). 18 Psychiatry in other settings. Multiple choice questions. Answers to multiple choicequestions. Appendix 1: ICD-10 classification of psychiatric disorders. Appendix 2: Keeping up to date and evidence based. Further Reading. Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9137-1
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 13/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés