Teaches clinicians to apply a variety of treatment strategies that empower patients to control depression and live healthier lives.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has recently changed the format of its membership examination to adopt multiple choice questions (MCQs). The book of mock MCQ papers includes 650 questions and answers covering all subjects of the Paper II curriculum.

A guide to the uses, benefits and impact of psychotropic drugs. It explains how people taking the drugs experience their side effects compared to the benefits they may bring. It includes thinking on the rationale for drug treatments to help mental health professionals and service users understand therapeutic decision making.

Case formulation is a key skill for mental health practitioners. This book provides examples of ten case formulations representing common mental health problems in a variety of populations and contexts, offering commentary on contrasting formulations of the same case. It covers the major theoretical perspectives in clinical practice.

The book is a pocket sized guide providing detailed and comprehensive coverage of clinical psychiatry. Useful to medical trainees in psychiatry and preparing for exams. Its detail and clinical coverage mean it can continue to be used by junior psychiatric trainees and those entering individual psychiatric sub-specialties later in training.

Depression is a common but serious illness, and most who experience it need treatment to get better. This book explores mental depression; it's forms, causes and treatments. It describes research in this field, including the development of medications, psychotherapies, and other methods which have been used to people with this disabling disorder.

Introduces the importance of vitamins and its use in the treatment of schizophrenia, mood and movement disorders. This book features the chapters that include theoretical and scientific background as well as practical data based conclusions which might be useful for the clinician in practice.

Reflecting the new syllabus and new MRCPsych exam launched by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, this book contains more than 450 multiple choice questions covering Paper 2. Closely matched to the exam, these MCQs are supported by detailed explanatory answers and revision notes.

Describes what schizophrenia is really like, how the illness progresses, and the treatments applied. This book summarizes the knowledge about the biological bases of this disorder. It attempts to give some idea of what it is like to have schizophrenia, and what this disorder tells us about the relationship between the mind and the brain.

Provides perspectives on the stressful transitions across the lifespan, this book discusses the transitions and balances theoretical knowledge with practical applications from transitions in health, adulthood and aging, to spirituality and cultural influences in the life cycle. It is suitable for mental health researchers and professionals.

Dulcans Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry supplants the previous textbook edited by Jerry Wiener and Mina Dulcannot with a new edition, but rather a new book that offers a fresh look at the field of child mental health. It preserves Wieners vision of a clinically focused textbook useful to trainees and practitioners in a variety of specialties, providing the most up-to-date and ...

Describes neuropsychological approaches to the investigation, description, measurement and management of a wide range of mental illnesses.

Two key challenges face mental health practitioners: making the correct psychiatric diagnosis and choosing the most appropriate treatment option. This book combines clinically-relevant information about each of the DSM-IV-TR diagnoses with information on treatment options, giving clinical management advice.

Fiction can be a powerful adjunct to mental health education and practice, its capacity to clarify and enlighten aspects of the field beyond doubt. This title presents an original interpretation of mental health issues based on some of the greatest works of English fiction. It provides insights into human distress, its effects and consequences.

Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, this title intends to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. It offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.

A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics.

Demonstrates that women's mental health and psychiatric disorders cannot be divorced from social, cultural and political realities. This book includes chapters that explore pregnancy and the postpartum period, the consequences of female genital mutilation, and migration and mental health.

Towards the end of the 20th century, the solution to mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in biological solutions. Arguing for a future of mental health treatment that focuses as much on patients as individuals as on the brain itself, this book intends to redefine our understanding of the treatment of madness in the twenty-first century.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of developmental, clinical, and social aspects of mental health from birth to the preschool years.

Following the recent changes to the psychiatry training curriculum by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, this is the first book of its kind specifically written to offer revision support for the new Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies (CASC) exam. It combines practical information with invaluable suggestions of how one might phrase particular questions and direct the conversation ...