Psychiatry: An Illustrated Colour Text

 

 

The third edition of this award-winning book offers an accessible and fun way of learning about the basic principles and practice of psychiatry.

Psychiatry provides a highly visual experience, with each topic covered across two pages that you can review and digest easily. For each spread there are summary boxes, questions and answers and self-assessment tasks that will help with understanding and revision.

This wonderful book covers a wide range of subjects, from mental health services to different treatments, the full range of disorders, and psychiatry specialisations. It thus provides an ideal introduction to psychiatry for medical students or anyone learning about mental health for the first time.

 

Table of Contents:

I: Introduction

1. Mental health services I

The changing face of psychiatry

Psychiatric treatment settings

The Multidisciplinary Team (MDT)

Who is on the MDT?

Care Planning

2. Mental health services II

Mental Health Pathways

Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment (CRHT) teams

Mental Health Crisis Services

Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams

Assertive Outreach teams (AOTs)

3. Classification in psychiatry

Classification systems

Psychiatric diagnosis

4. History and aetiology

Aetiology of psychiatric disorders

The psychiatric history

5. Mental state examination

Appearance and behaviour

Speech

Affect

Thoughts

Perceptions

Cognitive state

Insight

6. Assessment of risk

Suicide

Self-harm

Assessing suicide risk

Management of risk of suicide

7. Management plan and formulation

Management Plan

Differential diagnosis

Investigations

Care Plan

Formulation

Clinical exam technique

8. Psychiatry in primary care

Psychiatric disorders in primary care

Recognising mental illness in primary care

Management of mental illness in primary care

NHS Talking Therapies

Referral to secondary mental health services

9. Mental capacity

Assessment of capacity

The five principles of capacity

Best interests

Advance Decisions

Who should speak on a person’s behalf?

The Court of Protection

Liberty Protection Safeguard (LPS)

10. The Mental Health Act

Admission and treatment under the MHA

Right of appeal and other safeguards

Limits of the MHA

Common law

II: Treatment in Psychiatry

11. Introduction to drug treatments

Neurotransmitter systems

Dopamine systems

Monoamine systems

Acetylcholine system

Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate

12. Prescribing psychotropic drugs

When to prescribe

Adherence to medication

Monitoring drug treatment

13. Antipsychotic drugs

How do antipsychotics work?

Side effects

Clozapine

Depot antipsychotic drugs

Monitoring

Antipsychotics drugs and diabetes

14. Antidepressant drugs

How do antidepressants work?

SSRIs

Tricyclics

SNRIs

MAOIs

Other drugs

Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms

Suicidality and antidepressants

15. Mood stabilisers, benzodiazepines and ECT

Mood stabilisers

Benzodiazepines

Electroconvulsive therapy

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

16. Psychological treatments

Behavioural psychotherapy

Cognitive therapy

Dynamic psychotherapy

17. Family and social treatments

Family treatments

Social treatments

Occupational therapy

Rehabilitation

18. Recovery and social inclusion

The recovery model

Social inclusion

Advance decisions and statements

III: Schizophrenia

19. Diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia

Diagnosis

Symptoms

Delusional disorders

20. Epidemiology and aetiology of schizophrenia

Epidemiology

Aetiology

21. Acute and chronic schizophrenia

Acute schizophrenia

Chronic (residual) schizophrenia

Prognosis

Suicide risk

22. Management of schizophrenia

Clinical assessment

Drug treatment

Psychological treatment

Family treatments

Social treatments

IV: Mood Disorders

23. Classification of mood disorders

Episodes of mood disorder

Depressive disorders

Dysthymic Disorder

Bipolar disorder

Cyclothymic disorder

Seasonal affective disorder

Schizoaffective disorder

24. Epidemiology and aetiology of mood disorders

Bipolar disorder

Depressive Disorders

25. Bipolar disorder – clinical presentation and management

Clinical presentation of mania

Management of mania

Treatment

Management of bipolar depression

26. Depressive disorder – clinical presentation

Clinical presentation

Core symptoms of depression

Mental state examination

27. Depressive disorder – management

Treatment

V: Anxiety and Related Disorders

28. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders – clinical presentation and aetiology

Classification

Aetiology

Mixed depression and anxiety

29. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders – management

Assessment

Treatment

Drug treatment

Psychological treatment

30. Obsessive–compulsive disorders

Epidemiology

Aetiology

Management

Course and prognosis

31. Disorders associated with stress

Acute stress reaction

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Adjustment disorders

Bereavement

Prolonged grief disorder

32. Dissociative and bodily distress disorders

Dissociative disorders

Bodily distress disorders

VI: Personality Disorders

33. Personality disorders – introduction and classification

Personality and its assessment

Classification of abnormal personality

ICD11 diagnostic criteria for personality disorder

Epidemiology and aetiology

34. Personality disorders – management

Clinical assessment

Treatment

Personality disorder and mental illness

VII: Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviours

35. Alcohol dependence I

Introduction

Clinical features

Aetiology

Psychiatric complications of alcohol dependence

36. Alcohol dependence II

Assessment

Treatment

37. Substance misuse

Assessment

Treatment of substance misuse

Coexisting mental illness and substance misuse

Gambling disorders

VIII: Psychiatric Specialties

38. Older people’s mental health services and functional illness

Older people’s mental health services

Threshold for referral

Functional mental illness in older people

Depressive disorders

Bipolar disorder

Schizophrenia and delusional disorder

Substance misuse

Suicide and deliberate self-harm

39. Dementia diagnosis

Alzheimer’s disease

Dementia due to cerebrovascular disease (vascular dementia)

Lewy body dementia

Pick’s disease

Other causes of cognitive impairment

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

Huntington’s disease

Multiple sclerosis

40. Management of dementia

Early recognition of dementia

Diagnosis

Post-diagnostic support

Drug treatments

Drug treatments for dementia

Prescribing drugs for dementia

Side effects

End-of-life care

41. Dementia in the general hospital

Caring for patients with dementia in the general hospital

Delirium and dementia

Head injury

42. Neurodevelopmental disorders

Autism spectrum disorders

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Specific developmental disorders

43. Learning disabilities

Classification

Aetiology

Mental illness and learning disability

Management of learning disability

44. Child and adolescent psychiatry I

Normal childhood development

Assessment of children

Disruptive behaviour and dissocial disorders

Disorders of elimination

45. Child psychiatry II

Emotional disorders of childhood

Child abuse

Adolescence

Mental health in young people

Self-harm in young people

46. Eating disorders

Anorexia nervosa

Bulimia nervosa

Epidemiology

Aetiology

Management

Course and prognosis

47. Liaison psychiatry

Liaison psychiatry

Psychological causes of physical illness

Psychological consequences of physical illness

Epilepsy

48. Forensic psychiatry

Assessment of risk of violence

Diversion of mentally disordered offenders

Mental disorder and crime

49. Perinatal psychiatry

Postnatal depression

Postpartum psychosis

Organisation of services

Identification of women at risk

Drug treatment during pregnancy

Drug treatment during breastfeeding

50. Sexual dysfunction

Clinical assessment

General principles of management

Hypoactive sexual desire

Female sexual arousal dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction

Orgasmic dysfunction

Early ejaculation

Sexual pain penetration disorder (vaginismus)

Dyspareunia

Self-assessment

Answers

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An aparitie	8 mai 2024
Autor	Lesley Stevens, Ian Rodin
Dimensiuni	210 x 297 mm
Editura	Elsevier
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9780323935807
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	130