Liaison Psychiatry: Defining Needs and Planning Services
Edited by
Sidney Benjamin, Allan House and Peter Jenkins
The first British book to examine
the need for liaison psychiatry services, their scope, planning,
organisation and management. Its purpose is to prompt service
providers to raise the profile of and improve their psychiatric
liaison services.
Contents
Part I. Planning liaison
psychiatry services
- Estimating needs and meeting demands.
Allan House and Gail Hodgson
- The need for specialised services for
chronic somatisers. Sidney Benjamin and Keith Bridges
- The need for specialist services for
mood disorders in the medically ill. Peter Jenkins and Nahla
Jamil
- The role of the nurse in consultation
- liaison psychiatry. Elaine Egan-Morriss, Richard Morriss and
Allan House
Part II. Liaison psychiatry in
practice
- Setting up a consultation - liaison
psychiatry service in South Gwent. Andrew Blewett and Peter
Jenkins
- Liaison psychiatry in a large
teaching hospital: the service at Leeds General Infirmary. Allen
House
- Providing a psychiatric service to a
large cancer hospital. peter Maguire and Penelope Hopwood
- A child psychiatry liaison service.
Peter Loader
- Liaison services for elderly people.
Susan Mary Benbow
Part III. Education and
research in liaison psychiatry
- Undergraduate teaching. Gary
Bell
- postgraduate training. Elspeth
Guthrie and Francis Creed
- The relevance of research. Elspeth
Guthrie and Francis Creed