Title Statements
- Full title :Psychiatry.
Summary
"Crash Course - your effective every day study companion PLUS the perfect antidote for exam stress! Save time and be assured you have all the information you need in one place to excel on your course and achieve exam success. A winning formula now for over 15 years, each series volume has been fine tuned and fully updated, with an improved layout tailored to make your life easier. Especially written by junior doctors - those who understand what is essential for exam success - with all information thoroughly checked and quality assured by expert Faculty Advisers, the result is a series of books which exactly meets your needs and you know you can trust. Psychiatry can present a unique and sometimes daunting set of challenges to those approaching the specialty for the first time. This substantially revised fourth edition provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to this fascinating field. Ideal both as a revision aid and for preparation for work in A&E, the wards, clinics or GP surgeries, this book is full of practical hints and tips which will inspire confidence and to guide you towards systematic assessments, rational diagnoses and evidence based management plans."--BLACKWELLS.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
- Edition:4th ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Elsevier
- Place of Publication:Edinburgh
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
Notes
Revised edition of: Psychiatry. 3rd ed. / Julius Bourke and Matthew Castle. 2008.
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 294 pages : : color illustrations ; : 26 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780723436362, 0723436363
- oclc:ocn802103250
- LC Classification:RC454
- Dewey Decimal:616.89
Table of Contents
1. Psychiatric assessment and diagnosis -- 2. Pharmacological therapy and electroconvulsive therapy -- 3. Psychological therapy -- 4. Mental health and the law -- 5. Mental health service provision -- 6. The patient with thoughts of suicide or self-harm -- 7. The patient with low mood -- 8.The patient with elevated or irritable mood -- 9. The psychotic patient -- 10. The patient with anxiety, fear or avoidance -- 11. The patient with obsessions and compulsions -- 12. The patient with a reaction to a stressful event or bereavement -- 13. The patient with medically unexplained physical symptoms -- 14.The patient with impairment of consciousness, memory or cognition -- 15. The patient with alcohol or substance use problems -- 16. The patient with personality problems -- 17. The patient with eating or weight problems -- 18. The mood (affective) disorders -- 19. The psychotic disorders: schizophrenia -- 20. The anxiety and somatoform disorders -- 21.Alcohol and substance-related disorders -- 22. The personality disorders -- 23. Eating disorders -- 24. Disorders relating to the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and the puerperium -- 25. Dementia and delirium -- 26. Older adult psychiatry -- 27…
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