Synopses & Reviews
This is a hot practical book for clinical medical students, and clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in the course of their practice. Taking an evidence-based approach, this text emphasizes the assessment of psychiatric problems and focuses on their management in everyday clinical practice, giving advice on the management and referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists. In this edition there are numerous tables, advanced information boxes and other features to make the book easy-to-use.
Synopsis
This concise, practical guidebook by the authors of the widely successful Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (now in its second edition) is for clinical medical students, general practitioners, and other professionals who see patients with psychiatric problems. It focuses on management of psychiatric problems in everyday clinical practice, and advises general clinicians when to manage problems themselves and when to refer to a psychiatrist.
Table of Contents
' 1. Signs and symptoms
2. Interviewing and clinical evaluation
3. Classification
4. Etiology
5. Personality and its disorders
6. Reactions to stressful experiences
7. Neurosis
8. Affective disorders
9. Schizophrenia and schizophrenia-like disorders
10. Paranoid symptoms and paranoid syndromes
11. Organic psychiatric disorders
12. Psychiatry and medicine
13. Suicide and deliberate self-harm
14. The abuse of alcohol and drugs
15. Problems of sexuality and gender
16. Psychiatry of the elderly
17. Drugs and other physical treatments
18. Psychological treatment
19. Psychiatric care in the community
20. Child and adolescent psychiatry
21. Mental retardation
22. Psychiatry and the law
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