This innovative print and app package helps students and junior doctors connect with the topic of Psychiatry, to learn, understand and enjoy them, and to cement their knowledge in preparation for exams and future clinical practice. Whatever their learnign style, whether studying the subject for the first time or reviting it during exam prepareation, by using this resource in print or as an app, they really will learn medicine on the move.

Contents

Mental health assessment and service provision

Psychiatric history and mental state examination

Mental health and the law

MDT approach to psychiatry

Mental health disorders

Organic mental disorders

Mental disorders due to psychoactive substance use

Schizophrenia and delusional disorders

Affective disorders

Neurotic and somatoform disorders

Behavioural syndromes associated with physiological disturbance

Disorders of adult personality

Child and adolescent psychiatry

Forensic psychiatry

Treatment and psychiatric emergencies

Pharmacotherapy

ECT and psychotherapy

Psychiatric emergencies

Self-assessment questions

Mental health assessment and service provision

Mental health disorders

Treatment of psychiatric emergencies

Author Bio

Molly Douglas BMedSci MBChB, Foundation Year 1 doctor, Trafford General Hospital, Manchester, UK

Harriet Walker AVCM (Hons), Final Year medical student, University of Sheffield, UKHelen Casey MBChB, Foundation Year 1 doctor, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK



Editorial Advisor: Simon Matta BSc BMedSci BM BS MSc MRCPsych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Humber NHS Foundation Trust, UK