Overview

Titles 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

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Author:   Tomasz Bajorek ,  Tom Stockmann
Publisher:   JP Medical Ltd
Imprint:   JP Medical Ltd
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9781909836730

ISBN 10:   1909836737
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   20 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 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 

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Tomasz Bajorek BM BCh Core Trainee Psychiatry, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK Thomas Stockmann BM BCh Core Trainee Psychiatry, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

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