Pocket Psychiatry (Hardcover)

Pocket Psychiatry is a concise, problem-oriented guide to dealing with acute psychiatric conditions.
The second edition of this popular handbook provides fully updated and expanded material. New coverage of liaison with coroners and police is included, as are new sections on old age psychiatry and on patients with learning disabilities.
In addition to practical advice on the clinical problems encountered, the book provides invaluable information on how to work effectively in difficult clinical situations, legal considerations - including a thorough discussion of sectioning and interdisciplinary work.
The text is organised into sections:
• Assessment
• Psychiatric emergencies
• Psychiatric wards and AandE departments
The Mental Health Act
• Liaison psychiatry
• Working in the community
• Special topics
• Specific conditions
• Therapeutics
• Useful information
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