Psychiatry is the clinical specialty concerned with dysfunction of the mind and often the resultant perceptions of reality. Medical students need a firm understanding of the wide range of signs and symptoms that indicate psychiatric disorders, and how the diagnosis, management, and treatment options can differfrom other medical specialties. This title in the Clinical Cases Uncovered series provides a practical and accessible approach to psychiatry, with clinicalcases allowing students to experience the full range of psychiatric conditions they may encounter on the wards or be examined on in finals. INDICE: 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 teachers 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 Parkinsons disease isworried about him, 00.Case 18 Complete loss of memory in a fit middle-aged man, 00.Case 19 A GP colleague is at his wits 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
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-5983-8
- Editorial: Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 11/07/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés