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Psychiatry at a Glance
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Main description:

Psychiatry at a Glance is an easy–to–use, accessible introductory and study text for all students of psychiatry. It helps develop your skills in history taking and performing the Mental State Examination (MSE), and presents need to know information on the basic science, treatment, and management of the major disorders.


This edition features:



  • Thoroughly updated and reorganised artwork, offering greater clarity and easier understanding for those new to the subject

  • Greater emphasis on history taking and examination – essential for clinical work and clerking patients

  • New chapters on mental health capacity and coverage of the Australian and New Zealand health care legislation

  • Even more Extended Matching Questions, brand new Single Best Answer Questions, and sample OSCE stations so you can test your knowledge

  • A brand new companion website at www.ataglanceseries.com/psychiatry, featuring updated case studies and downloadable illustrations.


Psychiatry at a Glance is the ideal companion for anyone about to start a psychiatric attachment or module and will appeal to medical students, junior doctors and Psychiatry trainees as well as nursing students and other health professionals.


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Psychiatry at a Glance is an easy–to–use, accessible introductory and study text for all students of psychiatry. It helps develop your skills in history taking and performing the Mental State Examination (MSE), and presents need to know information on the basic science, treatment, and management of the major disorders.


This edition features:



Psychiatry at a Glance is the ideal companion for anyone about to start a psychiatric attachment or module and will appeal to medical students, junior doctors and Psychiatry trainees as well as nursing students and other health professionals.


Contents:

Preface 6


Contributors to Chapter 44 7


Assessment and Management


1 Psychiatric History 8


2 The Mental State Examination 10


3 Diagnosis and Classification in Psychiatry 12


4 Risk Assessment and Management in Psychiatry 14


5 Suicide and Deliberate Self–harm 16


Mental Disorders


6 Schizophrenia: Symptoms and Aetiology 18


7 Schizophrenia: Management and Prognosis 20


8 Depression 22


9 Bipolar Affective Disorder 24


10 Stress Reactions (Including Bereavement) 26


11 Anxiety Disorders 28


12 Obsessions and Compulsions 30


13 Eating Disorders 32


14 Personality Disorders 34


15 Psychosexual Disorders 36


16 Unusual Psychiatric Syndromes 38


Substance and Alcohol Misuse


17 Substance Misuse 40


18 Alcohol Misuse 42


Psychiatry of Demographic Groups


19 Child Psychiatry I 44


20 Child Psychiatry II 46


21 The Psychiatry of Adolescence 48


22 Learning Disability (Mental Retardation) 50


23 Cross–cultural Psychiatry 52


24 Psychiatry and Social Exclusion 54


25 Psychiatry and Female Reproduction 56


26 Functional Psychiatric Disorders in Old Age 58


The Interface of Psychiatry and Physical Illness


27 Psychiatry and Physical Illness 60


28 Neuropsychiatry I 62


29 Neuropsychiatry II 64


30 Neuropsychiatry III 66


31 Acute Confusional States 68


32 The Dementias 70


Psychiatric Management


33 Psychological Therapies 73


34 Antipsychotics 76


35 Antidepressants 78


36 Other Psychotropic Drugs 80


37 Electroconvulsive Therapy and Other Treatments 82


38 Psychiatry in the Community 84


39 Forensic Psychiatry 86


40 Mental Capacity 88


41 Mental Health Legislation in England and Wales 90


42 Mental Health Legislation in Scotland 92


43 Mental Health Legislation in Northern Ireland 94


44 Mental Health Legislation in Australia and New Zealand 96


45 Preparing for Clinical Examinations in Psychiatry 98


Self–assessment


Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) 100


Extended Matching Questions (EMQs) 102


Single Best Answer (SBA) Questions 106


OSCE Examiner Mark Sheets 110


Answers to EMQs 112


Answers to Single Best Answer (SBA) Questions 114


Further Reading 116


Glossary 120


Index 124


PRODUCT DETAILS

ISBN-13: 9780470658918
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley–Blackwell)
Publication date: July, 2012
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 217.00 x 274.00 x 6.98
Weight: 388g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders, Psychiatry

MEET THE AUTHOR

Cornelius Katona is Honorary Professor in the Department of Mental and Health Sciences, University College London, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

Claudia Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, University College London, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Mary Robertson is Emeritus Professor in Neuropsychiatry, University College London, and Visiting Professor and Honorary Consultant, St George′s Hospital and Medical School, London 

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