Neuroscience is increasingly understood to ground the practice of psychiatry, but clinicians can be overwhelmed by the competing facts and unfamiliar approaches utilised. This book provides key, up-to-date findings in neuroscience, and their relevance to clinical psychiatry in an approachable format. Clinical experts summarise the most important findings in diverse fields of neuroscience and explain their relevance for clinical practice. Topics include neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and neurophilosophy, imparting essential knowledge for the MRCPsych syllabus and exams, as well as conveying important recent developments. Each chapter is designed to aid comprehension and learning with suggested readings, equipping the reader with the knowledge and skills to understand, assess, and treat those with mental health problems in the 21st Century. Expertly covering essential neuroscience topics with a clear emphasis on clinical relevance, this book is ideal for clinicians in psychiatry, psychology, and allied fields such as mental health nurses.
Supporting a relative living with a psychotic disorder can be uniquely challenging when compared to other health conditions, leaving many family carers isolated and struggling with questions: Why us? How do others cope? Is it my fault? How much more can I take? This collection of personal accounts provides family carers with a helpful framework to make sense of their individual experiences and support their own coping and wellbeing. It details the myriad of positives, challenges and life-changing experiences that families encounter following the development of a psychotic illness in a loved one. The authors of these accounts are varied and include the parents, partners, siblings and children of those experiencing psychosis. This book will also serve as an excellent resource for psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, psychologists, social workers, GPs and students who should find the book relevant both for their own practice and for those families they support.
"In the past 100 years, there has been a revolution in our understanding of the brain. So far, this has done little to disrupt mainstream psychiatric practice. That is set to change. New neuroscience-based treatments are emerging, while evidence from neuroscience and genetics are calling into question traditional diagnostic boundaries. Psychiatrists of the future will need to integrate their understanding of brain imaging, molecular diagnostics, psychological factors and social context to provide neuroscience-informed care plans"--
"Fully updated throughout, this third edition of Seminars in General Adult Psychiatry provides a highly readable and comprehensive account of modern general adult psychiatry. This is an essential text for psychiatric trainees studying for their MRCPsych exams, and is a source of continuing professional development (CPD) for psychiatrists"--
"An exploration of the key issues impacting the mental health of university students, and what can be done with regards to support and improvement. This book will appeal to mental health professionals, GPs, support workers and counsellors, as well as parents, academic staff, and students"--
"In the past decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a general-purpose tool has become a disruptive force globally. By leveraging the power of artificial neural networks, deep learning frameworks can now translate text from hundreds of languages, enable real-time navigation for everyone, recognise pathological medical images, as well as enable many other applications across all sectors in society. However, the enormous potential for innovation and technological advances and the chances that AI systems provide come with hazards and risks that are not yet fully explored, let alone fully understood. One can stress the opportunities of AI systems to improve health care, especially in times of a pandemic, provide automated mobility, support the protection of the environment, protect our security and otherwise support human welfare, but nevertheless, we must not neglect that AI systems can pose risks to individuals, and societies, for example by disseminating biases, by undermining political deliberation or by the development of autonomous weapons. This means that there is an urgent need for responsible governance of AI systems. This Handbook shall be a basis to spell out in more detail what could become relevant features of Responsible AI and how we can achieve and implement them at the regional, national and international level. Hence, the aim of this Handbook is to address some of the most pressing philosophical, ethical, legal, and societal challenges posed by AI"--
"Introduction Neurosis is passâe, Neurosis belongs to history, Neurosis is dead. So why am I writing this book? The reason is that we need to be aware, even if we do not embrace, information that suggests the way we now look at common mental illness is not necessarily the most accurate or productive way of understanding, and more importantly, treating it. I also introduce this book with the foreword to its predecessor (Tyrer, 1989), written by the late Robert Kendell, and this also explains why I am publishing at this time. Robert, whom I will refer to as Bob from now on, was a stickler for accuracy and rarely wrote anything down that he could not defend with facts. His foreword was written 32 years ago but is just as apposite today - he actually could have written it today with the same wording, and this in itself reflects the poverty of attention that this subject has received since 1989. His statement 'new concepts should not be adopted until they have been validated by long-term follow-up studies, and the patients with a fluctuating mâelange of depressive, anxious and obsessional symptoms are so common that the term 'general neurotic syndrome' must be retained to describe them', is the keynote to this book. The central part of this book presents the results of a long-term follow-up study of the general neurotic syndrome, and even allowing for my prejudices (as Bob K rightly points out) it is difficult to ignore the findings that support it"--
Have you ever lied about your gambling habits to anyone, or tried to conceal the fact you''ve gambled? Have you ever bet more than you could afford to lose, or gone back the next day to try and win back the money you''ve lost? Your gambling may be becoming problematic and it''s time to seek help. Breaking Free: How to Stop Gambling is a self-help workbook, packed full of practical exercises, worksheets and questionnaires, designed to help you assess the extent of your gambling problem, and develop strategies to combat it. The materials use a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach to guide you through practical steps and techniques that can help you take back control of your habit. All of the materials have been developed by leading experts in the field and are evidence-based interventions, and are designed to help you to break free from your gambling problem.
The interface between mental health and schools has become a major focus of policy and practice. School attendance is important and impacts a range of outcomes, from academic performance, to children and young people's mental health. In this book, experts from the education and mental health sectors have collaborated to produce a practical guide to mental health and attendance at school that will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners across this inter-disciplinary field. The book covers topics such as the importance of a multidisciplinary approach, terminology and socio-political considerations, school attendance problems in relation to emotional, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders, special educational needs, school factors and influences and attendance of vulnerable children. Its aim is to offer practical advice and key information to practitioners from both clinical and educational sectors so that they can work more effectively to enable children and young people to thrive.
"In this book the authors explore current issues in the conceptualisation, assessment and treatment of antisocial personality. Consideration of two related constructs, psychopathy and sociopathy, is unavoidable given overlap in their meanings. The New Oxford Dictionary of English offers the following definition of 'antisocial': contrary to the laws and customs of society; causing annoyance and disapproval in others, e.g., aggressive and antisocial behaviour [1]. A person with antisocial personality is therefore one who both acts unlawfully or contrary to social norms and customs, and behaves in ways that others find objectionable. The dictionary defines a 'sociopath' as one with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviour.1 A 'psychopath' is defined as a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behaviour. This latter definition perhaps reflects the common (layperson's) perception of the 'psychopath' as someone who is dangerous and mentally deranged. Implicit in these definitions is the idea that there exists a continuum of antisocial behaviour or 'antisociality', ranging from the obnoxious but relatively benign, through the more severe and disordered (sociopathy) to the extreme (psychopathy) characterised by abnormal or violent social behaviour. This idea of an antisociality continuum is reflected in contemporary usage of these terms"--
Mental Health, Diabetes and Endocrinology examines clinical areas of overlap between endocrinology and mental health to address key clinical conundrums.
"At the start of the 21st Century, 'addiction' is said to be a 'disease' in most Western industrialized countries (1), and in the USA the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) refers to it as a 'brain disease'. However, when reading about the problems presented by drugs and alcohol you will encounter a range of terms ('addict', 'alcoholic', 'alcohol misuse', 'drug abuse', 'substance dependence') which seem to overlap and sometimes contradict each other. As is common with a lot of medical terminology, the meaning of many of these words has changed over time as they have started to be used out of their original context, and this can be a barrier to effective communication about the subject. Furthermore, the disease concept of addiction is not the only explanation of the problem, and some have argued that addiction is 'a set of ideas which have a history and a cultural location' (2)"--
A multidisciplinary account of the reforms in psychiatry and mental health in Britain during 1960-2010 and their relation to society.
Fully updated, the CANE is the recommended tool for assessing the mental health needs of older people.
Written by graduates of the internationally renowned Maudsley Training Programme, who have all recently sat the CASC examination, this book provides clear, practical guidance to passing the Royal College of Psychiatrists'' CASC. Divided according to psychiatric subspecialties, each chapter includes practice clinical scenarios. These clinical scenarios are broken down into candidate instructions, actor instructions and constructive candidate feedback. This enables candidates to practice not only with their clinical peers, but with friends and family as well. An additional chapter is dedicated to practical information about the exam and tips for the day to further equip readers in what to expect, and reduce anxieties about the exam itself. Another chapter is specifically devoted to addressing the needs of international and BAME medical graduates. Relevant and reliable throughout, this is a must-have resource for psychiatric trainees looking to improve their clinical skills and gain their MRCPsych qualification.
The Camberwell Assessment of Need for adults with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (CANDID) is a widely used tool for the assessment of health and social needs of people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems. It uses the assessment approach adopted by CAN, the world''s leading mental health needs assessment measure. Two versions of the CANDID are available: CANDID-S (short version) and CANDID-R (research version). Both versions are aimed at researchers and practitioners working with people with intellectual disabilities, and are suitable for clinical use in community and hospital-based services. Fully updated based on current policy, practice and terminology, this second edition introduces a more intuitive need rating system and an accessible rating algorithm. Guidance on how to use the measures is provided, as well as an overview of research developments since the first edition. The assessment forms are freely available to download from the CAN website (researchintorecovery.com/can) and cambridge.org.
The Camberwell Assessment of Need Forensic Version (CANFOR) is a tool for assessing the needs of people with mental health problems who are in contact with forensic services. It is based on the CAN, a widely used needs assessment for people with severe mental health problems. Individual needs are assessed in 25 areas of life, spanning health, social, clinical and functional domains. Comprehensive versions are available for research (CANFOR-R) and clinical use (CANFOR-C), as well as a short summary version (CANFOR-S) suitable for both research and clinical use. CANFOR was rigorously developed by a multidisciplinary team at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and is suitable for use in all forensic mental health and prison settings. This second edition provides an update of the CANFOR tools and their application in clinical and research settings. The assessment forms are freely available to download from the CAN website (researchintorecovery.com/can) and cambridge.org.
Modernises the Camberwell Assessment of Need, the most widely used measure of the needs of people with mental health problems.
This greatly expanded third edition provides a comprehensive overview of clinical psychopharmacology, incorporating the major advances in the field since the previous edition''s publication. Renowned experts from psychiatry, pharmacy, and nursing have integrated basic science, psychopharmacology, and clinical practice throughout the book in order to provide a thorough basis for prescribing. It covers all key psychiatric drugs and disorders and includes the latest data on efficacy, safety and tolerability. Adopting a pragmatic approach to drug nomenclature, both Neuroscience-based Nomenclature (NbN) and older generic terminology are included in the text reflecting that clinicians are likely to use both systems. Many chapters refer to current National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, making this a crucial resource. Edited by leading authorities in the field, Professor Peter M. Haddad and Professor David J. Nutt, Seminars in Clinical Psychopharmacology emphasises evidence-based prescribing with the aim of achieving better clinical outcomes for patients.
An approach to designing health care that explores how social factors and social identity determine health and recovery.
A thorough update to the 'must-have' guide to ECT for clinical psychiatrists, providing practical advice on safe and efficacious treatment.
With universal application, nidotherapy is a treatment and a set of principles both fully explained in this comprehensive guide.
Mental health problems during pregnancy and after childbirth are common, proving a difficult time for affected mothers, but also for young children within the family and the wider family network. This reassuring workbook provides young children with ways to understand and cope at this challenging time. With a percentage of profits going to support affected mothers and their families, this interactive and engaging text provides a practical approach to mental health problems. Through beautiful illustrations and interactivity the effect on children aged three and above is explored, providing them an outlet to express their feelings and receive vital answers. Alongside family members, teachers or healthcare professionals, this topical workbook explaining the brain and feelings in a child-centric way encourages a heightened, positive awareness of a delicately complex topic.
A comprehensive guide to this emerging field, fully updated to cover clinical, policy, and practical issues with a user-centred approach.
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