Full Description
This book highlights the best educational practices for the professionals dealing with mental health and illness. While attempting an overall review of the current state-of-the-art in psychiatry education, the book focuses on recent developments and controversies in undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatric education around the globe.
Contents
From the contentsTeaching about co-morbidity of mental and physical diseases.- Acquisition of leadership and management skills.- Links of undergraduate and postgraduate education in psychiatry: how one should influence the other.- Teaching psychiatry to allied professions (possibly several chapters, e.g. on nurses, social workers, defectologists).- Psychiatrists and Health education about mental illness.- Education about psychosocial aspects of health, the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health.
