Rapid psychiatry

• Main Authors: Hibbert, Allison (Author), Godwin, Alice (Author), Dear, Frances (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, Mass. Blackwell Pub. 2004
• Series: Rapid series
• Subjects: Mental Disorders > Handbook > methods; Psychiatry > Handbook > methods
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"Rapid Psychiatry" is the fifth title in the "Rapid" series of short revision notes books, covering key information in a simple and easily accessible format, using a mnemonic to aid recall. This book provides an excellent revision tool in the run-up to exams, but is also useful f...

Table of Contents:

• Psychiatric history and mental state examination
• The psychiatric history
• The mental state examination
• Mini mental state examination
• Assessment of an eating disorder
• Alcohol history
• Assessment of suicide risk
• Differential diagnosis
• The anxious patient
• The depressed patient
• The elated patient
• The hallucinating patient
• The panicking patient
• The patient with obsessions and compulsions
• The thin patient, the patient who overeats
• The unresponsive patient.
• Adult psychiatric disorders
• Introduction to adult psychiatry
• Old age psychiatry
• Abnormal grief reaction
• Acute stress disorder
• Adjustment disorder
• Agoraphobia
• Anorexia nervosa
• Bipolar affective disorder
• Bulimia nervosa
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Deliberate self harm
• Delirium
• Dementia
• Depression
• Other depressive syndromes
• Dissociative conversion disorders
• Epilepsy
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Huntingtons disease
• Kleinefelters syndrome
• Motor neuron disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Obsessions and compulsions
• Parkinsons disease
• Personality disorders
• Postnatal blues
• Postnatal depression
• Post traumatic stress disorder
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Psychosexual disorders
• Puerperal psychosis
• Schizophrenia
• Social phobia
• Somatoform disorders
• Specific phobia
• Substance misuse
• Drugs and the law
• Substance misuse : alcohol
• Wernickes encephalopathy
• Korsakoffs psychosis
• Suicide
• Syphilis
• Wilsons disease.
• Child psychiatric disorders
• Introduction
• Attention deficit disorder
• Childhood autism
• Conduct disorders
• Behavioural -hyperkinetic disorder
• Elimination disorders- enuresis
• Elimination disorders- encopresis
• Learning disability
• Other child psychiatric conditions
• Truanting
• School refusal
• Emotional disorders
• Sleep disorders
• Child abuse
• Physical treatments
• Introduction
• Antidepressants
• Serotonin reuptake inhibitors
• Trycyclic antidepressants
• Inhibitors of monoamine oxidates
• Antipsychotics
• Anxiolytics
• CBT and psychological therapies
• Cpa and the multidisciplinary team
• Cns stimulant medications
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Mood stabilizers
• Lithium
• Sodium valproate
• Carbamazepine
• Serious adverse effects of drugs
• Acute dystonic reactions
• Clozapine
• Lithium toxicity
• Monoamineoxidase inhibitors
• Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
• Treatment of psychiatric emergencies
• The acutely confused patient
• The acutely intoxicated patient
• The patient not eating or drinking
• The patient who has taken an overdose
• Suicidal patient/ deliberate self harm
• The violent and abusive patient.