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Second Edition
By
Kamaldeep Bhui, MSc, MRCPsych, DipClinPsych, Senior Lecturer in Social & Epidemiological Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
Scott Weich, MSc, MRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
Keith Lloyd, MSc(Econ), MSc, MRCPsych, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter; Consultant Psychiatrist, Exeter Community Trust, Exeter, UK
Description
POCKET PSYCHIATRY is a concise, problem-oriented guide to dealing with acute psychiatric conditions. The handy format and clear text
make this an ideal ready reference. In addition to practical advice on the clinical problems encountered, it provides invaluable information
on how to work effectively in difficult clinical situations.
Contents
Assessment
Psychiatric History
Mental State Examination
Physical status
Investigations
Summarising The
Assessment: Formulation
Psychiatric Emergencies: A problem based approach
The hostile patient
The anxious
patient
The depressed patient
The suicidal patient
The Personality disordered patient
The hallucinating patient
The paranoid
patient
The confused patient
The police-escorted patient
The unresponsive patient
The sexually disinhibited patient
The
substance misusing patient
Psychiatric Wards and A & E departments
A&E
Working on psychiatric wards
Multidisciplinary
teams
Relatives
The Mental Health Act
Civil & Forensic Sections
Consent to Treatment Rules
Electroconvulsive
therapy
Psychosurgery & implantation of sex hormones
Plan of treatment
Mental Health Act Commissioner
Capacity to give consent
Advanced
statements
Changes to the legal framework
Liaison Psychiatry
The work of the liaison psychiatrist
The
liaison assessment
Secondary non-organic disorders
Delirium
Somatisation
Oncology
The dying patient
Obstetrics and
gynaecology
HIV infection and AIDS
Psychological and emotional problems among relatives
Psychological and emotional problems
among staff
Working in the community
Community care legislation
Modernising mental health services
The
National Service Framework
Components of comprehensive local services
The Revised Care Programme Approach
Sectorization
Needs
assessment
Domiciliary Visits
Primary Care Psychiatry
Special Topics
Forensic psychiatry
Court
diversion
Report writing
Risk assessment
Rape
Child Sexual Abuse
Neuroimaging and psychiatry
The skin and psychiatry
Improving
treatment adherence among psychiatric patients
Persistent psychotic symptoms: non pharmacological approaches
Religion and Mental
Health
The Emergency Cross Cultural Psychiatric Assessment
Culture Bound Syndromes
Possession States
Specific
Conditions
Alcohol misuse
Illicit drug use
Schizophrenia
Affective Disorders
Neurotic disorders
Eating
disorders
Disorders of personality
Other Behavioural disorders
Learning difficulties
Child and adolescent mental health
Psychiatric
disorders in later life
Therapeutics
Physical Treatments
Psychological Treatments
Social
Treatments
Useful Information
Addresses
Phenomenology
Psychiatric Rating Scales
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 288 pages, publication date: APR-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2631-7
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2631-X
Imprint: BAILLIÈRE TINDALL
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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