Affective and Non-Psychotic Disorders: Recent Topics from Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (Volume 2)
Edited by Alan Lee
This book brings together selected topics from the popular
journal Advances in Psychiatric
Treatment. Readers will find expert advice on key elements
of clinical practice presented against a backdrop of up-to-date and
sharply focused reviews of the relevant literature.
It discusses the evidence-based assessment of deliberate
self-harm, and covers the special problems of general psychiatric
practice when alcohol misuse and severe personality disorder
complicate the picture. Chapters relating to depressive disorders
begin by focusing on opportunities for psychosocial prevention, and
liaison with primary care. There are comparisons of 'old' and 'new'
antidepressants, and reviews of strategies for preventing relapse
and recurrence and managing treatment-resistant depression. The
special problems of emergency treatment and depression in older
patients are identified.
There are expert overviews of brief dynamic psychotherapy,
cognitive approaches to treatment, lithium therapy and modern
electroconvulsive therapy practice. Many chapters emphasise the
importance of the rational integration of biological and
psychological treatments. There is helpful advice on the specific
problems in managing obsessive-compulsive and eating disorders, in
dealing with somatisation and in providing support and treatment
for the victims of severe trauma.
This book covers many of the key challenges which
present in day-to-day general adult psychiatric practice. Although
it is aimed at all senior psychiatric trainees, their teachers and
other mental health professionals, the book should be especially
useful for trainees preparing for Part II of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists Membership Examination.
Features
- Up-to-date selection of most popular articles targeted at needs
of trainees
- Clinically relevant
- Well referenced
- Authoritative
- Key topics
Readership
- Trainees preparing for the College Membership Examination
- Senior psychiatrists, lecturers and other mental health
professionals
Contents
- Assessment of deliberate self-harm in adults.
- Prevention of depression: psychological and social
measures.
- Chronic depression in primary care: approaches to liaison.
- Managing depression in older people.
- Emergency treatment of depression.
- Toxicity of newer versus older antidepressants.
- Lessons to be learnt from meta-analyses of newer versus older
antidepressants.
- Pharmacological management of treatment-resistant
depression.
- Prevention of relapse and recurrence of depression: newer
versus older antidepressants.
- Advances in the practice of electroconvulsive therapy.
- Lithium therapy.
- Brief dynamic psychotherapy.
- Cognitive-behavioural therapy for whom?
- Behavioural therapy and drug treatments for
obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Management of somatisation.
- Management of patients with personality disorder.
- Management of alcohol misuse within the context of general
psychiatry.
- Management of anorexia nervosa.
- Management of bulimia nervosa and other binge eating
problems.
- Treatment of victims of trauma.