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A Guide to Psychiatric Examination Carmelo Aquilina

A Guide to Psychiatric Examination By Carmelo Aquilina

A Guide to Psychiatric Examination by Carmelo Aquilina

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This book is a helpful guide before and after exams. A useful handbook for medical students, trainee psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychiatric nurses, social workers and occupational therapists.

A Guide to Psychiatric Examination Summary

A Guide to Psychiatric Examination by Carmelo Aquilina

Written with the help of tutors and students this practical guide is invaluable for everyone working with people with mental health problems, and is an aid to conducting efficient and comprehensive psychiatric assessments. The book contains a detailed review of a general psychiatric assessment and has practical guides on assessments in eleven specific problems and four groups of people.

A Guide to Psychiatric Examination Reviews

'An extrmely readable and comprehensive account of the process of taking a hisory from a patient with a psychiatric illness ... All students who read this book will come away aware that they have learned from modelling the masters.' Stephen Tyler, Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 'An essential read, this book is simple to follow and engaging, but above all it got me throught my psychiatry attachment and gave me great confidence.' Helen Garthwaite, 5th year Medical Student, Imperial College London.

About Carmelo Aquilina

Dr Carmelo Aquilina MD. FRCPsych, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist and Clinical head of Old Age Psychiatry Services , Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. Graduated in Malta, trained in Liverpool and London and worked as a Consultant in Sheffield, Eastbourne and London, United Kingdom. James Warner MD MRCP MRCPsych Senior Lecturer in Old Age Psychiatry, Imperial College London. Honorary Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Central North West London Mental Health Trust.

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction Acknowledgements Contributors Section A: The Basics 1. Why interview? 2. The basic skills? 3. Developing the skills Section B: The Psychiatric Interview 4. Preparing the interview 5. The psychiatric history 6. The Mental State Examination (MSE) 7. The physical examination 8. Ending the interview Section C: Interviewing in Specific Situations 9. The suicidal patient 10. The depressed patient 11. The manic patient 12. The psychotic patient 13. The anxious patient 14. The obessive-compulsive patient 15. The patient with post-traumatic stress disorder 16. The confused patient 17. The mute patient 18. The angry patient 19. The patient with alcohol-related problems 20. The substance misuser 21. The patient with an eating disorder Section D: Interviewing Specific Groups of Patients 22. Assessing children and adolescents 23. Assesssing the elderly 24. Assessing people with learning difficulties 25. Assessubg people from an ethnic minority background Section E: Special Topics 26. Extending your congnitive examination 27. Presenting the case Section F: Appendices Index

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GOR001498547
9781904627142
1904627145
A Guide to Psychiatric Examination by Carmelo Aquilina
Carmelo Aquilina
Used - Very Good
Paperback
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20041012
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