Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Clinical knowledge, distilled into a handy compendium!  Each article in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment is a specially commissioned overview of a particular psychiatric subject by expert clinicians. They discuss comprehensive, practical approaches to clinical problems and explain the full range of therapeutic options. Many articles also appear with additional commentaries. Advances makes an essential contribution to the continuing medical education of psychiatrists at all levels, but is aimed at any practising mental health professional who needs to be kept informed of current ideas, techniques and developments in psychiatry.

• Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and answers at the end of each article for self-testing.
• Peer-reviewed by experts in the field.
• Regular editorials and series focus on particular key clinical topics and current issues.
• Highlighted boxes summarise all the key points.
• Easy to read: two-colour design and useful sub-headings.
• RCPsych members get online access free of charge and get a discount on the price of the print version of around 50%.

Regular features in Advances include:

• Commissioned articles
• Commentaries
• Poem by a service user
• Correspondence section

Online Advances has the following extra features:

• E-letters section.
• Full text archive dating back to 2000.
• Full text (as PDFs) and contents lists archive dating back to the first ever issue in 1994.
• More online features.

Please note: Since January 2009 online content from Advances has changed from becoming free after one year, to three years after publication. Content published before January 2008 will continue to be available free. Content published after that date will be made free to all, three years after publication.