The Approved Mental Health Professional′s Guide to Psychiatry and Medication

Herausgeber: Brown, Robert; Pollard, Alan; Adshead, Gwen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fully-updated guide to psychiatric practice and psychiatric medication

Produktdetails

• Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series
• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9781844453047
• ISBN-10: 1844453049
• Artikelnr.: 26410030

Inhaltsangabe

The importance of psychiatry and medication for AMHPs
Psychiatrists: training and how they practise
An overview of psychiatry and classification
Psychotic disorders
Neurotic disorders, substance abuse and personality disorders
Forensic psychiatry
Psychiatry of old age
Psychiatry and risk assessment
Patients as parents
Child and adolescent psychiatry
Treatment issues in psychiatry
Classification of medication in psychiatry
Anti-depressants and mood stabilisers
Anti-psychotics
Anxiolytics, sedative/hypnotics, substance abuse
Older adults, children, unlicensed drugs
The law and psychiatric treatment
Treatment under the Mental Health Act