Psychological Medicine: A Companion To Management Of Mental Disorders

Edited by Pierre Beumont, Gavin Andrews, Philip Boyce, and Vaughan Carr.

The Management of Mental Disorders is a two volume guide to the recognition and management of individuals with mental disorders. Each volume also contains a series of resource materials, including interview schedules and assessment instruments for the clinician, and educational handouts and homework exercises for patients. As such the Management of Mental Disorders is intensely practical, avoiding discussion of theoretical issues or current controversies.

This book, Psychological Medicine: a Companion to Management of Mental Disorders, is the antidote. It contains formal discussions and practical advice about psychopathology, consultation and liaison psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and psychiatry of old age - topics not covered in the original text. It also contains concise essays on critical topics, well referenced self-directed learning guides on common disorders, and self-assessment case studies with model answers.

Chapter 1
Mental Disorders, Psychopathology and Classification (Pierre Beumont)

Mental disorders; Classification; Diagnosis within 5 minutes; Current classificatory sysytems; and Technical terms used in psychopathology.

Chapter 2
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (Philip Boyce, Ian Hickie and Elizabeth Scott)

Introduction and historical perspective; Psychosomatic medicine; Epidemiology of psychological syndromes in medical settings; Assessment in consultation liaison psychiatry; Diagnostic considerations; Treatment considerations; Depression in the medically-ill; Psychiatry and chronic pain syndromes; Organic brain disorders; Disease, illness, the sick role and illness behaviour; Disorders of illness behaviour; Psychoimmunology; Post-infectious fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome; Irritable bowel syndrome; and Specific intervention areas in liaison psychiatry.

Chapter 3
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Joseph M. Rey)

Influences on development; Specific issues in the assessment of children and adolescents; Specific issues in the management of children and adolescents; Making a referral; Youth suicidal behaviour; Disorders with onset usually occurring during childhood or adolescence: Emotional disorders (including major depression and separation anxiety disorder); Behavioural disorders (including hyperkinetic disorder or ADD, oppositional disorder, and conduct disorder); and developmental disorders.

Chapter 4
Psychiatry of Old Age (John Snowdon)

What is different about the old; Differences in the disorders; Depression in old age; Mania and bipolar disorder in old age; Paranoid states and schizophrenia in old age; Neurosis, personality disorders and alcoholism in old age; Dementia; and Ethical issues.

Chapter 5
Critical and Controversial Issues

• Phenomenology (Pierre Beumont)
• The epidemiology of mental disorders (Gavin Andrews)
• Why are there sex differences in psychiatric illnesses? (Kay Wilhelm)
• Does it matter how we classify depression? (Gordon Parker)
• What is psychotherapy? (Russell Meares)
  
• Principles of cognitive behavioural therapies (Roslyn A. Griffiths)
• How do we measure outcome? (Gavin Andrews)
• Principles of psychopharmacology (Gordon Johnson)
• Imaging the brain in psychiatry (Evian Gordon)
• Neurotransmitters (Ann Sefton)
• Hormones, neuroendocrinology and psychiatry (Pierre Beumont)
• The major genetic issues in psychiatry (Philip B. Mitchell)
• Information processing in schizophrenia (Vaughan J. Carr)
• Movement disorders in psychiatry (Perminder Sachdev)
• Bad kids grown up (Joseph M. Rey)
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Philip Hazell)
• HIV/AIDS - psychological and neuropsychiatric aspects (Melissa Corr)
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (Stephen William Touyz)
• Suicide (Gregory Carter)
• Domestic violence (Janice Russell)
• Life events, stress and psychiatric illness (Chris Tennant)
• How the mental health service operates (Margaret Tobin)
• Psychiatric problems in general practice (Tim Usherwood)
• Remote and rural psychiatry: what to do when no-one is there (Cathy Owen)
• Shared mental health care (Robert Llewellyn-Jones)
• Psychiatry and the emergency department (Robert Gribble and Melissa Corr)
• Who should be treated: burden versus health gain (Gavin Andrews)

Chapter 6
Self-directed learning guides

• Psychotropic medications (William Lyndon and Gordon Johnson)
• Depression (Philip Boyce, Ian Hickie and Elizabeth Scott)
• Bipolar affective disorder (Philip B. Mitchell)
• Anxiety disorders (Caroline Hunt and Malinda Jarry)
• Somatoform disorders (Ian Hickie and Philip Boyce)
• Schizophenic disorders (Stan Catts)
• Dieting disorders (Pierre Beumont)
• Personality problems (Lisa A. Lampe)
• Psychiatry of old age (John Snowdon)

Chapter 7
Self-Assessment Case Studies (Vaughan J. Carr, Philip Hazell and Gregory Carter)

This chapter contains thirteen case studies based on a problem based learning model of teaching, in that questions are posed as the case history is revealed. Model answers are also provided.

Edited by Gavin Andrews MD, UNSW, 2007
©2007 CRUfAD