Description
Book SynopsisRehearse for life in clinical practice with this easy-to-use and unique series, which combines cases drawn from real-life experiences with a refreshing approach to presentations as you would see them in day-to-day situations.
Trade Review?This book serves its purpose well. It is an ideal way to shift the learning process from rote memorization to a learner-centered process. The case-based discussions make psychiatric disorders come alive, placing students in the role of medical detective.? (
Doody?s Reviews)
Table of ContentsIntroduction.
How to use this book.
Part 1 Basics.
Approach to the patient.
Mental health treatments.
Part 2 Cases.
Case 1 A 20-year-old student who collapses in the supermarket.
Case 2 A 47-year-old woman who lives in fear that God will punish her.
Case 3 An 18-year-old college drop-out gets an eviction order from his parents.
Case 4 An 18-year-old trainee chef who cannot go to work.
Case 5 Sudden deterioration of a 78-year-old woman in a nursing home.
Case 6 A 72-year-old woman with antisocial behaviour.
Case 7 A 64-year-old retired teacher's depression is getting worse.
Case 8 A 17-year-old man has been cutting his arms.
Case 9 A 9-year-old disruptive child faces expulsion from school.
Case 10 A 48-year-old security guard with new symptoms every day.
Case 11 A 28-year-old man has been arrested at the airport.
Case 12 A 24-year-old new mother in distress.
Case 13 A 15-year-old head prefect with pneumonia is behaving secretly.
Case 14 Insomnia in a 26-year-old successful City man.
Case 15 A 15-year-old child assaults his foster mother.
Case 16 A 42-year-old woman insists she is pregnant.
Case 17 The wife of a 66-year-old GP with Parkinson’s disease is worried about him.
Case 18 Complete loss of memory in a fi t middle-aged man.
Case 19 A 32-year-old woman puts her GP under pressure.
Case 20 The 21-year-old critical medical student.
Case 21 A 24-year-old legal secretary with depressed mood and suicidal thoughts.
Case 22 A 41-year-old woman with epilepsy develops a different pattern of fits.
Part 3 Self-assessment.
MCQs.
EMQs.
SAQs.
Answers.
Index of cases by diagnosis.
Index.
