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Title The Maudsley handbook of practical psychiatry.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Edition 6th ed. / edited by Gareth Owen, Sir Simon Wessely and Sir Robin Murray.
Description 1 online resource (xv, 210 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford medical publications
Oxford medical publications.
Contents Cover; The Maudsley Handbook of Practical Psychiatry; Copyright; Contents; Detailed contents; List of abbreviations; 1 The psychiatric interview with adults; The comprehensive psychiatric interview; The A & E setting; Outpatient settings; Home visits; Assessment of the elderly patient; 2 Psychosocial assessments with adults; Assessing early life experience; Memories of sexual abuse; Assessing personality; Assessing family relationships; Assessing the social state; Cross-cultural assessments in psychiatry; 3 The psychiatric interview with children; Some differences from interviewing adults.
Scheme for description of mental stateSources of information; Interviewing parents; Information from school and other sources outside the family; Synthesizing different sources; Assessment of children with developmental disorders; 4 The mental state examination; The mental state of adults; The elderly; 5 Neuropsychiatric assessment; History; Mental state examination; Neurological examination; Specific scenarios; 6 The formulation, the summary, and progress notes; The formulation; The summary; Progress notes; Handover notes; 7 Special interview situations.
The patient who demands proof that you careThe patient who solicits erotic involvement; The patient who brings gifts; The patient who is disinhibited; The patient who refuses to leave; The patient out of hours; The patient who demands drugs; The patient who threatens violence; The assessment of violence risk; 8 Special problems; Suicide and self-harm; Alcohol and drug use; Eating disorders; Somatization; Mother and baby problems; Learning disabilities; Epilepsy; Sexual and relationship problems; 9 Treatments; Acute psychosis.
Important side-effects of antipsychotic medication and their treatmentMania and hypomania; Catatonia; Severe depression; Prescribing during pregnancy and breastfeeding; Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT); Alcohol and drug misuse; Psychotherapy; 10 Mental health law; Mental Health Act 1983; Mental Capacity Act 2005; Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Deprivation of Liberty; Safeguarding vulnerable adults; Children Act 1989; Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; The Care Programme Approach; Appendix 1: The AUDIT questionnaire.
Appendix 2: Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination and Abbreviated MentalTest ScoringAppendix 3: The 'SAD PERSONS' scale; Appendix 4: Alcohol Withdrawal Assessment Scoring Guidelines (CIWA-Ar); Appendix 5: Antipsychotic depot injections: suggested adult doses and frequencies; Appendix 6: Equivalent doses, maximum daily doses, and adverse effects of antipsychotics; Appendix 7: Clozapine: management of adverse effects; Index.
Summary The Maudsley Handbook of Practical Psychiatry has long served trainees in psychiatry, presenting them with practical and essential advice. This new edition of the orange book provides guidance on the psychiatric and neuropsychiatric examination and interviewing of adults and children not just as a central skill, but as the basis for reaching a diagnosis, formulation and defining a treatment plan. It covers special interview situations, such as dealing with specific patient reactions, and other special problems, for example, conducting a complicated assessment in cases of self-harm. The book con.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Interviewing in psychiatry -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Interviewing in psychiatry.
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals.
Subject Mental illness -- Treatment -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Mental illness -- Treatment.
Psychiatry -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Psychiatry.
Psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Handbooks and manuals.
Added Author Owen, Gareth (Research fellow)
Wessely, Simon.
Murray, Robin M., 1944-
Added Title Handbook of practical psychiatry
Other Form: Print version: Maudsley handbook of practical psychiatry. Sixth edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014 9780199661701 (OCoLC)888460988
ISBN 9780191017810 (electronic book)
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