Textbook of Psychiatry for southern Africa 2e Content editors: J Burns and L Roos
The completely revised and updated Textbook of Psychiatry for southern Africa 2e is a comprehensive but accessible resource covering all aspects of psychiatry and mental health in southern Africa. The textbook represents the collaboration of sixty-three experts in their fi elds from ten academic institutions as well as the private sector in South Africa, from disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, radiology and pharmacology.
Substantially restructured and expanded (with the addition of ten new chapters) and updated to refl ect the current Mental Health Care Act (2002) as well as DSM-5 psychiatric classifi cation, the Textbook is a resource that will be indispensable for a wide range of students and professionals working within and outside of the mental health fi eld in southern Africa.
New to this edition: • Comprehensive information on the biological, psychosocial and cultural aspects of all psychiatric disorders
• Clear, detailed management for all psychiatric conditions and presentations, that is holistic, relevant to the southern African context, and is based on the best current evidence from both research and clinical practice
• Sections focused on psychiatric classifi cation and clinical assessment, as well as issues of particular importance such as women’s mental health, neuropsychiatry, HIV and mental health, addictions, culture and psychiatry, public mental health, and stigma
• Inclusion of non-core additional information in ‘advanced reading blocks’ for the specialist-level reader; as well as numerous case studies to illustrate common real-life patient presentations of various disorders
• An exhaustive Glossary of over 400 terms used in psychiatry and mental health, including local terms common to the southern African context
• Updated with the latest DSM-V, frequent case studies, that illustrate the complexity of disorders as well as practical understanding of mental health care.
The textbook is designed for a range of students and health professionals in the fi elds of psychiatry and mental health studying and working within southern Africa, including:
• Medical students • Registrars in psychiatry • Undergraduate and postgraduate students in other mental health disciplines including Nursing, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Pharmacy, Family Medicine and Public Health
• Clinicians from all these disciplines working in both public and private settings including: psychiatrists, psychologists, OTs, social workers, nurses, medical offi cers, community service doctors, interns, GPs, specialists in related fi elds (such as neurology, medicine, maternal and child health, etc) and health systems managers/administrators.
Table of Contents Part 1 Conceptualising psychiatric disorders • Chapter 1: History of Psychiatry • Chapter 2: Classifi cation in Psychiatry • Part 2 Causes of psychiatric disorders • Chapter 3: Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics • Chapter 4: The Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders • Chapter 5: Psychosocial Determinants of Mental Disorders • Chapter 6: Culture and Psychiatry • Part 3 Assessment of psychiatric disorders • Chapter 7: Clinical Assessment in Psychiatry • Chapter 8: Person-Centred Psychiatry • Chapter 9: Investigating Psychiatric Disorders • Part 4 Psychiatric disorders • Chapter 10: Cognitive Disorders • Chapter 11: Schizophrenia spectrum & Other Psychotic Disorders • Chapter 12: Depressive Disorders • Chapter 13: Bipolar Disorders • Chapter 14: Anxiety, Fear and Panic • Chapter 15: Acute Reactions to Adverse Life Events • Chapter 16: Trauma • Chapter 17: Obsessive- Compulsive and related Disorders • Chapter 18: Somatic symptom and Related Disorders • Chapter 19: Dissociative Disorders • Chapter 20: Addictions 1: Alcohol-Related Disorders • Chapter 21: Addictions 2: Other Substance- Related and Addiction Disorders • Chapter 22: Eating and Sleep Disorders • Chapter 23: Disorders of Sexual Function, Preference and Identity • Chapter 24: Personality Disorders • Chapter 25: Impulse Control Disorders • Part 5 Special topics in psychiatry • Chapter 26: Women’s Mental Health • Chapter 27: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 1: Assessment and the young child • Chapter 28: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2: The older child and adolescent
Medicine • Chapter 32: Neuropsychiatry • Chapter 33: HIV and Mental Health • Chapter 34: Suicide and the aggressive patient
• Chapter 29: Intellectual Disability • Chapter 30: Psychogeriatrics • Chapter 31: Psychiatry and • Chapter 35: Legal and Ethical Aspects of Psychiatry • Part 6 Management of psychiatric
disorders • Chapter 36: Pharmacological and other Treatments in Psychiatry • Chapter 37: Psychological interventions • Chapter 38: Social interventions in psychiatry • Chapter 39: Public mental health • Chapter 40: Combating stigma in psychiatry • Glossary
PAPERBACK JAN 2016 OUP SA
688 PAGES 9780199046324
NURSING
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