Lecture Notes
Psychiatry
10th Edition
Published on 21. November 2011
240 pages
978-1-118-29714-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 conductpsychiatric interviews and assessments, understand the corepsychiatric disorders, their aetiology and evidence-based treatmentoptions.
It incorporates the latest NICE guidelines and systematicreviews, and includes coverage of the Mental Capacity Act and thenew Mental Health Act. Featuring case studies throughout, it isperfect for clinical preparation with example questions to askpatients during clinical rotations.
Each chapter features bulleted key points, while the summaryboxes and self-test MCQs ensure Lecture Notes: Psychiatry isthe ideal resource, whether you are just beginning to developpsychiatric knowledge and skills or preparing for an end-of-yearexam.
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 conductpsychiatric interviews and assessments, understand the corepsychiatric disorders, their aetiology and evidence-based treatmentoptions.
It incorporates the latest NICE guidelines and systematicreviews, and includes coverage of the Mental Capacity Act and thenew Mental Health Act. Featuring case studies throughout, it isperfect for clinical preparation with example questions to askpatients during clinical rotations.
Each chapter features bulleted key points, while the summaryboxes and self-test MCQs ensure Lecture Notes: Psychiatry isthe ideal resource, whether you are just beginning to developpsychiatric knowledge and skills or preparing for an end-of-yearexam.
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Paul J. Harrison | John Geddes | Michael Sharpe
Lecture Notes: Psychiatry
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Professor Paul Harrison, FRC Psych, Professor Paul Geddes, FRC Psych, and Dr Michael Sharpe, MRC Psych, are all experienced teachers in psychiatry and psychological medicine. Professors Harrison and Geddes are both based at the Warneford Hospital in Oxford where they teach the psychiatry attachment for medical students at Oxford University, and Dr Sharpe is Reader in Psychological Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
Content
Preface, vi
1 Getting started 1
2 The core psychiatric assessment 6
3 Psychiatric assessment modules 16
4 Risk: harm, self-harm and suicide 37
5 Completing and communicating the assessment 43
6 Aetiology 51
7 Treatment 60
8 Psychiatric services and specialties 85
9 Mood disorders 92
10 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders 106
11 Eating, sleep and sexual disorders 118
12 Schizophrenia 128
13 Organic psychiatric disorders 142
14 Substance misuse 157
15 Personality disorders 168
16 Childhood disorders 176
17 Learning disability (mental retardation) 189
18 Psychiatry in other settings 196
Multiple choice questions, 202
Answers to multiple choice questions, 208
Appendix 1: ICD-10 classifi cation of psychiatric disorders,213
Appendix 2: Keeping up to date and evidence based, 214
Further reading, 215
Index, 219
1 Getting started 1
2 The core psychiatric assessment 6
3 Psychiatric assessment modules 16
4 Risk: harm, self-harm and suicide 37
5 Completing and communicating the assessment 43
6 Aetiology 51
7 Treatment 60
8 Psychiatric services and specialties 85
9 Mood disorders 92
10 Neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders 106
11 Eating, sleep and sexual disorders 118
12 Schizophrenia 128
13 Organic psychiatric disorders 142
14 Substance misuse 157
15 Personality disorders 168
16 Childhood disorders 176
17 Learning disability (mental retardation) 189
18 Psychiatry in other settings 196
Multiple choice questions, 202
Answers to multiple choice questions, 208
Appendix 1: ICD-10 classifi cation of psychiatric disorders,213
Appendix 2: Keeping up to date and evidence based, 214
Further reading, 215
Index, 219
