Psychiatry in general practice
Ben Green(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 16. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7923-8853-1 (ISBN)
Description
Changes in mental health services and treatments mean that general practitioners now have the foremost role in the early diagnosis and long-term management of mental disorder. Psychiatry in General Practice is designed to meet the needs of the general pracitioner - faced with a vast array of psychological distress and illness but without lengthy psychiatric training and the time resources used by psychiatrists. Section One: Principles; looks at the symptoms and signs of mental disorder and how the current services operate to provide community care. Sections Two: The Life Cycle and the Family Three Specific Health Disorders in Adult Psychiatry and Four Treatment initiatives look at the problems faced by individuals and their families throughout their life cycles together with a consideration of specific mental disorders such as schizophrenia and with up-to-date management strategies.
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Edition
1995
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Research
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
288 p.
Dimensions
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Width: 0 mm
Weight
481 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-8853-1 (9780792388531)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 Principles: creating rapport; symptoms and signs of mental disorder; danger signals and the Mental Health Act; mental health screening; mental health services. Part 2 The life cycle and the family: development in infancy, middle childhood and adolescence; family structures; the psychology of ageing. Part 3 Specific disorders in adult psychiatry: symptoms in childhood and adolescence; schizophrenia; bereavement; depression; neurotic disorders and somatization; addiction and alcoholism; sexual disorders; dementia; suicide and parasuicide. Part 4 Treatment initiatives: psychiatric drugs; psychotherapy and counselling.