Puri / Treasaden Psychiatry: An evidence-based text

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4441-1326-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 1323 Seiten

Succinct, user-friendly, thoroughly referenced and prepared by leading experts in the field, this book is the only single textbook you will need to succeed in the Royal College of Psychiatrists' MRCPsych and other related higher examinations.

- Chapters follow the structure and syllabus of the examination ensuring that you receive the necessary essential information to pass and indeed succeed

- Approachable and succinct text with colour illustrations and key summary points further help to clarify complex concepts and provide you with useful revision tools

- The evidence-based approach used throughout is important to help you relate theory and research to clinical practice

The book is carefully structured and sequenced to building upon the basic sciences underpinning psychiatry, through to an in-depth description of pharmacological and psychological treatments used.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Puri, Bassant

Treasaden, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The foundations of modern psychiatric practice History of psychiatry

Introduction to Evidence-based medicine

History and philosophy science

Research methods and statistics

Epidemiology

How to practice evidence-based medicine

Psychological assessment and psychometrics

Part 2: Developmental, behavioural and socio-cultural psychiatry Human development

Introduction to Basic psychology

Awareness

Stress

Emotion

Information processing and attention

Learning Theory

Motivation

Perception

Memory

Language and thought

Personality

Social psychology

Social science and socio-cultutral psychiatry

Cultural psychiatry

Part 3: Neuroscience Neuroanatomy

Basic concepts in neurophysiology

Neurophysiology of Integrated behaviour

Neurogenesis and cerebralplasticity

The neuroendocrine system

The Neurophysiology of arousal and sleep

The electroencephalogram (EEG) and evoked potential studies (EPS)

Neurochemistry

Neuropathology

Neuroimaging

Genetics

Part 4: Mental health problems and mental illness Classification and diagnostic systems: ICD-10, DSM-IV-TR and DSM-V

Cognitive assessment

Neurology for Psychiatrists

Organic disorders

Schizophrenia and paranoid psychoses

Mood disorders/affective psychoses

Neuroses

Hypochondriasis

Eating disorders

Personality disorders

Perinatal psychiatry: clinical features, epidemiology, aetiology

Psychosexual medicine

Gender identity disorders

Paraphilias and sex offendors

Psychiatric assessment of physical illness

Overlapping multi-system, multi-organ illnesses/syndromes

Mental health problems: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Mental health problems in ME, fibromyalgia

Pain and psychiatry

Sleep and sleep disorders

Suicide and deliberate self-harm

Emergency psychiatry

Care of the dying and bereaved

Part 5: Approaches to treatment Clinical psychopharmacology

ECT

rTMS & VNS

Psychotherapy: Introduction

Dynamic psychotherapy

Family therapy

Marital therapy

Group therapy

CBT

Other individual psychotherapies

Therapuetic communities

Effectiveness of psychotherapy

Part 6: Clinical specialities Addiction psychiatry

Child and adolescent psychiatry

Learning disability psychiatry

Old age psychiatry

Rehabilitation psychiatry

Part 7: Mental health service provision Management: Psychiatric services and management, and leading and organising service development and delivery

Advice to special medical services

Part 8: Legal and ethical aspects of psychiatry Forensic psychiatry

Legal aspects of psychiatry

Ethics and Law

Risk assessment

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Basant Puri, Honorary Consultant in Imaging and Psychiatry, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London, UK
Ian Treasaden, Head of Forensic Neurosciences, Lipid Neuroscience Group and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Imperial College and Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London UK