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Improving the Mental Health Consultation

Introducing a short circuit tool to aid patient understanding and dispel stigma
  • ISBN-13: 9781911510970
  • Publisher: SCION PUBLISHING LTD
    Imprint: SCION PUBLISHING LTD
  • By Shammy Noor
  • Price: AUD $63.99
  • Stock: 10 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 06/06/2022
  • Format: Paperback (244.00mm X 172.00mm) 272 pages Weight: 430g
  • Categories: Psychiatry [MMH]
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Patients with mental health issues present frequently in primary care and their consultations are often more challenging and time-consuming than those involving physical illness. For many patients there remains a significant stigma associated with mental ill-health and overcoming this adds further complexity to the consultation. Improving the Mental Health Consultation provides a simple 'short circuit' tool to help GPs and other healthcare professionals to explain mental health problems simply and effectively to their patients. The tool is straightforward, easy to convey within the confines of a 10-minute consultation and extremely effective in helping to break down the stigma that patients often feel. The tool has been developed and refined during over ten years of consultations in primary care. The detailed explanations of how to use the tool during the consultation, along with the extensive case studies, will help you to improve your mental health consultations and so help your patients deal better with their diagnosis. From anxiety to OCD and chronic fatigue to fibromyalgia, the book also provides detailed coverage of diagnosis and classification using ICD-11 and DSM-IV, and management using the latest NICE guidelines.
Preface; Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Mental health - the issue and a solution 1.2 The global Covid-19 pandemic Chapter 2 The short circuit theory 2.1 The 'short circuit' as a description of mental health disorders 2.2 The symptoms of the short circuit 2.3 The problem of insight 2.4 The three Ps: personality, pressure and pathology 2.5 The three Ps: patient assumptions vs. actual cases Chapter 3 The short circuit as a tool: a practical approach 3.1 Mental health problems 3.2 When to use the short circuit tool 3.3 Using the short circuit tool in a consultation 3.4 Summary 3.5 Worked examples Chapter 4 Mental health illnesses in detail 4.1 Focus on anxiety 4.2 Focus on depression 4.3 Focus on OCD Chapter 5 Physical illness with mental health connections 5.1 Focus on physical symptoms 5.2 Fibromyalgia 5.3 Irritable bowel syndrome 5.4 Chronic pain syndrome 5.5 Chronic fatigue syndrome Chapter 6 Treating the patient 6.1 Treating the patient 6.2 Treatment modalities 6.3 Dealing with pressure 6.4 Cognitive behavioural therapy 6.5 Pharmacological treatments Chapter 7 Summary
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