Psychiatry for medical students
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Psychiatry for medical students
American Psychiatric Press, c1990
2nd ed
- pbk
Available at 4 libraries
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work is intended as a valuable resource not just for medical students, but for anyone entering the mental health care field. The clear and readable text is for nurses, social workers, psychologists and medical students who are taking a first course in psychiatry or doing a first clinical clerkship, and others trying to make sense of their first encounters with people who are emotionally disturbed. The book presents the basic facts without jargon and provides an introduction to topics such as schizophrenia, electroconvulsive therapy, transference, and tranquilizers. The chapters can be read and referred to quickly making it a useful resource for busy students who are in the midst of a clinical rotation. It is also a companion to a first course in psychopathology. Throughout this book, the author helps students to focus on themselves as well as on their patients. Section 1 is designed to offer basic skills with which to approach the diagnostic evaluation. Section II includes the syndromes students will most likely encounter while working in outpatient and inpatient mental health facilities.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Assessment skills: the clinical interview
- fundamentals of technique
- psychodynamics - some basic concepts
- taking a psychiatric history
- the mental status examination. Part 2 Basic psychopathology: schizophrenia
- mood disorders
- unipolar disorders (depressive disorders)
- bipolar disorders (manic depressive illness)
- personality disorders
- anxiety, phobias, dissociative disorders, and somatoform disorders. Part 3 Special populations: geriatric psychiatry
- children and adolescents
- consultation-liaison psychiatry
- neuropsychiatry. Part 4 Special problems: human sexuality - function and dysfunction
- substance abuse and eating disorders
- suicide
- violence. Part 5 Treatment: psychotherapies
- somatic therapies, psychotropic medications, anti-psychotic medications
- anti-depressants, lithium, anti-convulsants, anti-anxiety agents, electroconvulsive therapy. Appendices: sample psychiatric evaluation
- table of commonly abused drugs
- global assessment of functioning (GAF) scale
- some common psychotropic medications (classified by type)
- trade names of psychotropic medications.
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