Description
Book SynopsisTitles in the Pocket Tutor series give practical guidance on subjects that medical students and foundation doctors need help with ‘on the go’, at a highly-affordable price that puts them within reach of those rotating through modular courses or working on attachment.
Topics reflect information needs stemming from today’s integrated undergraduate and foundation courses:
- Common presentations
- Investigation options (e.g. ECG, imaging)
- Clinical and patient-orientated skills (e.g. examinations, history-taking)
The highly-structured, bite-size content helps novices combat the ‘fear factor’ associated with day-to-day clinical training, and provides a detailed resource that students and junior doctors can carry in their pocket.
Key points
- Logical, sequential content: an introduction to the clinical essentials of psychiatric practice, then chapters devoted to common groups of disorders and clinical issues, e.g. mood disorders, anxiety disorders, child and adolescent psychiatry
- Fully updated to reflect the new DSM V
- Additional content on old age psychiatry and social care. New chapter on mental health services and legislation
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Psychiatric assessment
Chapter 2 Mental health services and legislation
Chapter 3 Management
Chapter 4 Schizophrenia and other psychoses
Chapter 5 Mood disorders and perinatal psychiatric conditions
Chapter 6 Suicide and self-harm
Chapter 7 Personality disorders
Chapter 8 Anxiety disorders and medically unexplained symptoms
Chapter 9 Substance misuse
Chapter 10 Old age psychiatry: delirium and dementia
Chapter 11 Eating, sleep and sexual disorders
Chapter 12 Psychiatry of intellectual disability
Chapter 13 Child and adolescent psychiatry
