
Psychiatry
An Illustrated Colour Text
- 3rd Edition - March 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Lesley Stevens, Ian Rodin
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 5 8 0 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 6 4 3 - 9
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Request a sales quoteThe third edition of this award-winning book offers an accessible and fun way of learning about the basic principles and practice of psychiatry.
Psychiatry: An Illustrated Colour Text, Third Edition provides a highly visual experience, with each topic covered across two pages that you can review and digest easily. For each spread there are summary boxes, questions and answers and self-assessment tasks that will help with understanding and revision.
This wonderful book covers a wide range of subjects, from mental health services to different treatments, the full range of disorders, and psychiatry specialisations. It thus provides an ideal introduction to psychiatry for medical students or anyone learning about mental health for the first time.
Psychiatry: An Illustrated Colour Text, Third Edition provides a highly visual experience, with each topic covered across two pages that you can review and digest easily. For each spread there are summary boxes, questions and answers and self-assessment tasks that will help with understanding and revision.
This wonderful book covers a wide range of subjects, from mental health services to different treatments, the full range of disorders, and psychiatry specialisations. It thus provides an ideal introduction to psychiatry for medical students or anyone learning about mental health for the first time.
- Introductory level coverage of a complex topic, presented in an engaging way
- Concise double page spreads for each topic – allows you to absorb information quickly
- Stimulating and easy to read, with summaries and revision aids throughout
- Full-colour line diagrams to demonstrate essential concepts
- Practical advice on patient care
- Modern pharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders
Medical students
- Instructions for Online Access
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Any screen, Any time, Anywhere
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- I: Introduction
- 1. Mental health services I
- The changing face of psychiatry
- Psychiatric treatment settings
- The Multidisciplinary Team (MDT)
- Who is on the MDT?
- Care Planning
- 2. Mental health services II
- Mental Health Pathways
- Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment (CRHT) teams
- Mental Health Crisis Services
- Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams
- Assertive Outreach teams (AOTs)
- 3. Classification in psychiatry
- Classification systems
- Psychiatric diagnosis
- 4. History and aetiology
- Aetiology of psychiatric disorders
- The psychiatric history
- 5. Mental state examination
- Appearance and behaviour
- Speech
- Affect
- Thoughts
- Perceptions
- Cognitive state
- Insight
- 6. Assessment of risk
- Suicide
- Self-harm
- Assessing suicide risk
- Management of risk of suicide
- 7. Management plan and formulation
- Management Plan
- Differential diagnosis
- Investigations
- Care Plan
- Formulation
- Clinical exam technique
- 8. Psychiatry in primary care
- Psychiatric disorders in primary care
- Recognising mental illness in primary care
- Management of mental illness in primary care
- NHS Talking Therapies
- Referral to secondary mental health services
- 9. Mental capacity
- Assessment of capacity
- The five principles of capacity
- Best interests
- Advance Decisions
- Who should speak on a person’s behalf?
- The Court of Protection
- Liberty Protection Safeguard (LPS)
- 10. The Mental Health Act
- Admission and treatment under the MHA
- Right of appeal and other safeguards
- Limits of the MHA
- Common law
- II: Treatment in Psychiatry
- 11. Introduction to drug treatments
- Neurotransmitter systems
- Dopamine systems
- Monoamine systems
- Acetylcholine system
- Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate
- 12. Prescribing psychotropic drugs
- When to prescribe
- Adherence to medication
- Monitoring drug treatment
- 13. Antipsychotic drugs
- How do antipsychotics work?
- Side effects
- Clozapine
- Depot antipsychotic drugs
- Monitoring
- Antipsychotics drugs and diabetes
- 14. Antidepressant drugs
- How do antidepressants work?
- SSRIs
- Tricyclics
- SNRIs
- MAOIs
- Other drugs
- Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms
- Suicidality and antidepressants
- 15. Mood stabilisers, benzodiazepines and ECT
- Mood stabilisers
- Benzodiazepines
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
- 16. Psychological treatments
- Behavioural psychotherapy
- Cognitive therapy
- Dynamic psychotherapy
- 17. Family and social treatments
- Family treatments
- Social treatments
- Occupational therapy
- Rehabilitation
- 18. Recovery and social inclusion
- The recovery model
- Social inclusion
- Advance decisions and statements
- III: Schizophrenia
- 19. Diagnosis and classification of schizophrenia
- Diagnosis
- Symptoms
- Delusional disorders
- 20. Epidemiology and aetiology of schizophrenia
- Epidemiology
- Aetiology
- 21. Acute and chronic schizophrenia
- Acute schizophrenia
- Chronic (residual) schizophrenia
- Prognosis
- Suicide risk
- 22. Management of schizophrenia
- Clinical assessment
- Drug treatment
- Psychological treatment
- Family treatments
- Social treatments
- IV: Mood Disorders
- 23. Classification of mood disorders
- Episodes of mood disorder
- Depressive disorders
- Dysthymic Disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Cyclothymic disorder
- Seasonal affective disorder
- Schizoaffective disorder
- 24. Epidemiology and aetiology of mood disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Depressive Disorders
- 25. Bipolar disorder – clinical presentation and management
- Clinical presentation of mania
- Management of mania
- Treatment
- Management of bipolar depression
- 26. Depressive disorder – clinical presentation
- Clinical presentation
- Core symptoms of depression
- Mental state examination
- 27. Depressive disorder – management
- Treatment
- V: Anxiety and Related Disorders
- 28. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders – clinical presentation and aetiology
- Classification
- Aetiology
- Mixed depression and anxiety
- 29. Anxiety- and fear-related disorders – management
- Assessment
- Treatment
- Drug treatment
- Psychological treatment
- 30. Obsessive–compulsive disorders
- Epidemiology
- Aetiology
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- 31. Disorders associated with stress
- Acute stress reaction
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Adjustment disorders
- Bereavement
- Prolonged grief disorder
- 32. Dissociative and bodily distress disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- Bodily distress disorders
- VI: Personality Disorders
- 33. Personality disorders – introduction and classification
- Personality and its assessment
- Classification of abnormal personality
- ICD11 diagnostic criteria for personality disorder
- Epidemiology and aetiology
- 34. Personality disorders – management
- Clinical assessment
- Treatment
- Personality disorder and mental illness
- VII: Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviours
- 35. Alcohol dependence I
- Introduction
- Clinical features
- Aetiology
- Psychiatric complications of alcohol dependence
- 36. Alcohol dependence II
- Assessment
- Treatment
- 37. Substance misuse
- Assessment
- Treatment of substance misuse
- Coexisting mental illness and substance misuse
- Gambling disorders
- VIII: Psychiatric Specialties
- 38. Older people’s mental health services and functional illness
- Older people’s mental health services
- Threshold for referral
- Functional mental illness in older people
- Depressive disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Schizophrenia and delusional disorder
- Substance misuse
- Suicide and deliberate self-harm
- 39. Dementia diagnosis
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Dementia due to cerebrovascular disease (vascular dementia)
- Lewy body dementia
- Pick’s disease
- Other causes of cognitive impairment
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
- Huntington’s disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- 40. Management of dementia
- Early recognition of dementia
- Diagnosis
- Post-diagnostic support
- Drug treatments
- Drug treatments for dementia
- Prescribing drugs for dementia
- Side effects
- End-of-life care
- 41. Dementia in the general hospital
- Caring for patients with dementia in the general hospital
- Delirium and dementia
- Head injury
- 42. Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Specific developmental disorders
- 43. Learning disabilities
- Classification
- Aetiology
- Mental illness and learning disability
- Management of learning disability
- 44. Child and adolescent psychiatry I
- Normal childhood development
- Assessment of children
- Disruptive behaviour and dissocial disorders
- Disorders of elimination
- 45. Child psychiatry II
- Emotional disorders of childhood
- Child abuse
- Adolescence
- Mental health in young people
- Self-harm in young people
- 46. Eating disorders
- Anorexia nervosa
- Bulimia nervosa
- Epidemiology
- Aetiology
- Management
- Course and prognosis
- 47. Liaison psychiatry
- Liaison psychiatry
- Psychological causes of physical illness
- Psychological consequences of physical illness
- Epilepsy
- 48. Forensic psychiatry
- Assessment of risk of violence
- Diversion of mentally disordered offenders
- Mental disorder and crime
- 49. Perinatal psychiatry
- Postnatal depression
- Postpartum psychosis
- Organisation of services
- Identification of women at risk
- Drug treatment during pregnancy
- Drug treatment during breastfeeding
- 50. Sexual dysfunction
- Clinical assessment
- General principles of management
- Hypoactive sexual desire
- Female sexual arousal dysfunction
- Erectile dysfunction
- Orgasmic dysfunction
- Early ejaculation
- Sexual pain penetration disorder (vaginismus)
- Dyspareunia
- Self-assessment
- Answers
- Case history comments
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- Index
- Edition: 3
- Published: March 1, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 130
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323935807
- eBook ISBN: 9780323936439
LS
Lesley Stevens
Affiliations and expertise
Director of Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, Isle of Wight NHS Trust, Isle of Wight, UKIR
Ian Rodin
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Psychiatrist, Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, Dorset, UK