Full 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.
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
