Primary care mental health

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Primary care mental health

edited by Linda Gask ... [et al.]

RCPsych Publications, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Primary care is usually the first port of call for people with mental health problems and plays an increasingly important role in developing and delivering mental health services. Indeed, 90% of all patients with mental health problems (including 30-50% of all those with serious mental illness) only use primary care services. How can practitioners in primary care best respond to psychiatric presentations? In this book, internationally respected authors provide a conceptual background and dispense practical advice for the clinician. They discuss ways of improving joint working between primary and secondary care, as well as issues affecting the professional development of all practitioners within primary care teams. The book will be useful for general practitioners (GPs) and all medical practitioners and managers in primary care.

Table of Contents

  • List of figures, tables and boxes
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • Part I. Conceptual Basis and Overarching Themes: 1. What is primary care mental health? Linda Gask, Helen Lester, Tony Kendrick and Robert Peveler
  • 2. Mental health and primary healthcare: an international policy perspective Norman Sartorius
  • 3. The epidemiology of mental illness Laura Thomas and Glyn Lewis
  • 4. A sociological view of mental health and illness Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim
  • 5. The service user perspective Helen Lester and Linda Gask
  • 6. Low- and middle-income countries Mohan Isaac and Oye Gureje
  • 7. Diagnosis and classification of mental illness: a view from primary care Linda Gask, Christopher Dowrick, Michael Klinkman and Oye Gureje
  • Part II. Clinical Issues: 8. Depression Tony Kendrick and Andre Tylee
  • 9. Suicide and self-harm Sandra Dietrich, Lisa Wittenberg, Ella Arensman, Airi Varnick and Ulrich Hegerl
  • 10. Anxiety Bruce Arroll and Tony Kendrick
  • 11. Medically unexplained symptoms Christopher Dowrick and Marianne Rosendal
  • 12. Mental health problems in older people Carolyn Chew-Graham and Robert Baldwin
  • 13. Perinatal mental health Debbie Sharp
  • 14. Child and adolescent mental health Tami Kramer and Elena Garralda
  • 15. Psychosis Helen Lester
  • 16. Emergencies in primary care Tony Kendrick and Helen Lester
  • 17. Substance misuse Clare Gerada
  • 18. Management of alcohol problems Helen Lester and Linda Gask
  • 19. Eating disorders Geoffrey Wolff
  • 20. Physical health of people with mental illness Richard Holt, Tony Kendrick and Robert Peveler
  • 21. Ethnic minorities Waquas Waheed
  • 22. Asylum seekers and refugees Angela Burnett
  • 23. Sexual problems Mike King
  • Part III. Policy and Practice: 24. Mental health promotion Andre Tylee and Annie Wallace
  • 25. Improving the quality of primary care mental health: what does and does not work? Linda Gask, Simon Gilbody and Tony Kendrick
  • 26. Psychological treatments Frances Cole and Karina Lovell
  • 27. Collaborative care and stepped care: innovations for common mental disorders David Richards, Peter Bower and Simon Gilbody
  • 28. The role of practice nurses Sue Plummer and Mark Haddad
  • Part IV. Reflective Practice: 29. Teaching and learning about mental health Linda Gask, David Goldberg and Barry Lewis
  • 30. Undertaking mental health research in primary care Tony Kendrick, Robert Peveler and Linda Gask
  • 31. Individual treatment decisions: guidelines and clinical judgement Tony Kendrick
  • 32. Self and others: the mental healthcare of the practitioner Linda Gask and Barry Lewis
  • Epilogue: Racing pigeons and rolling rocks: reflections on complex problems in primary care Christopher Dowrick
  • Index.

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