Peter Byrne, Nicola Byrne

Psychiatry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

_ A practical and accessible approach to psychiatry
_ Clinical cases allow students to experience the full range of psychiatric conditions they may encounter on the wards or be examined on in Finals
_ Assists students to gain firm understanding of the wide range of signs and symptoms that indicate psychiatric disorders, and how the diagnosis, and management and treatment options can differ from other medical specialties
_ Includes self-assessment to assist learning and revision

Produktdetails

• Clinical Cases
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405159830
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 184mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781405159838
• ISBN-10: 1405159839
• Artikelnr.: 23586717

Autorenporträt

Peter Byrne, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London & Royal Free Medical School and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at NE London Mental Heath NHS Trust Nicola Byrne,Consultant Psychiatrist, the Maudsley Hospital, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents. Introduction, 00. How to use this book, 00. Part 1 Basics, 00. Approaches to the patient, 00. Mental health treatments, 00. Part 2 Cases, 00. Case 1 A 20
year
old student collapses in the supermarket, 00. Case 2 A 47
year
old woman who lives in fear that God will punish her, 00. Case 3 An 18
year
old college drop
out gets an eviction order from his parents, 00. Case 4 An 18
year
old trainee chef who cannot go to work, 00. Case 5 Sudden deterioration of a 78
year
old woman in a nursing home, 00. Case 6 A 72
year
old woman with antisocial behaviour, 00. Case 7 A 64
year
old retired teacher's depression is getting worse, 00. Case 8 A 17
year
old man has been cutting his arms, 00. Case 9 A 9
year
old disruptive child faces expulsion from school, 00. Case 10 A 48
year
old security guard with new symptoms every day, 00. Case 11 A 28
year
old man has been arrested at the airport, 00. Case 12 A 24
year
old new mother in distress, 00. Case 13 A 15
year
old prefect with pneumonia is behaving secretly, 00. Case 14 Insomnia in a 26
year
old successful City man, 00. Case 15 A 15
year
old child assaults his foster mother, 00. Case 16 A 42
year
old woman insists she is pregnant, 00. Case 17 The wife of a 66
year
old GP with Parkinson's disease is worried about him, 00. Case 18 Complete loss of memory in a fit middle
aged man, 00. Case 19 A GP colleague is at his wit's end, 00. Case 20 The critical medical student, 00. Case 21 A 24
year
old legal secretary with depressed mood and suicidal thoughts, 00. Case 22 A 41
year
old woman with epilepsy develops a different pattern of fits, 00. Part 3 Self
assessment, 00. MCQs, 00. EMQs, 00. SAQs, 00. Answers, 00. Index of cases by diagnosis, 00. Index, 00