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Psychiatry Michael G. Gelder

Psychiatry By Michael G. Gelder

Psychiatry by Michael G. Gelder


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Summary

Covers psychiatric problems and includes a comprehensive coverage of signs, symptoms and diagnosis, assessment, aetiology, and psychiatry and the law. This book is intended for social work and clinical psychology students, general practitioners and clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in their practice.

Psychiatry Summary

Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text by Michael G. Gelder

Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text introduces the subject to the medical student in a concise, innovative and memorable way. Praised by lecturers and students alike for making even the most esoteric aspects of psychiatry accessible, this book will also appeal to social work and clinical psychology students, general practitioners and clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in the course of their practice. The book covers the most important psychiatric problems and includes a comprehensive coverage of signs, symptoms and diagnosis, assessment, aetiology, and psychiatry and the law. Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text: introduces the major psychiatric problems; focuses on the management of psychiatry problems in everyday clinical practice; gives advice on the referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists; covers the general principles of history-taking and assessment; and includes genuine case histories, key points and further reading.

Table of Contents

1. Signs, symptoms and diagnosis; 2. Assessment; 3. Aetiology; 4. Personality and its disorders; 5. Reactions to stressful experiences; 6. Anxiety and obsessional disorders; 7. Somatoform and dissociative disorders; 8. Mood disorders; 9. Schizophrenia and related disorders; 10. Delirium, dementia and other cognitive disorders; 11. Psychiatry and medicine; 12. Disorders of eating and sleeping; 13. Suicide and deliberate self harm; 14. Problems due to the use of alcohol and other psychoactive substances; 15. Problems of sexuality and gender; 16. Psychiatry of the elderly; 17. Drugs and other physical treatments; 18. Psychological treatment; 19. Mental health care for a community; 20. Child and adolescent psychiatry; 21. Learning disability; 22. Psychiatry and the law

Additional information

GOR005114346
9780198528630
0198528639
Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text by Michael G. Gelder
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20050303
344
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