Oxford Core Text: Psychiatry

頁數：340    裝訂：平裝 　開數：24.6 x 19 　印刷：雙色

Description ~~~
*A highly-praised introduction to psychiatry for medical students who often find this topic difficult
*Includes case histories, key points and further reading throughout
*Redesigned, updated and revised in response to student feedback
*Includes boxes with advanced information to separate what is needed by students and by practitioners
*Includes a section on taking an evidence-based approach to psychiatry

New to this edition~~
*A brand new text design has been used to ensure that the book is even more user-friendly and accessible
*Chapter 1 now deals not only with symptoms and signs but also with diagnosis
*Two new chapters - one brings together somatoform and dissociative disorders and the other covers disorders of eating and sleeping

This thoroughly revised new edition of Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text introduces the subject to the medical student in a concise, innovative and memorable way. Praised by lecturers and students alike for making even the most esoteric aspects of psychiatry accessible, this book will also appeal to social work and clinical psychology students, general practitioners and clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in the course of their practice. The book covers the most important psychiatric problems and includes a comprehensive coverage of signs, symptoms and diagnosis, assessment, aetiology, and psychiatry and the law.

The book has been thoroughly revised and updated for this edition, and is in line with GMC guidelines on the teaching of psychiatry. The revised user-friendly, accessible text design is in response to student feedback. New material includes chapters which bring together somatoform and dissociative disorders, and disorders of eating and sleeping.

Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text

* introduces the major psychiatric problems
* focuses on the management of psychiatry problems in everyday clinical practice
* gives advice on the referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists
* covers the general principles of history-taking and assessment
* includes genuine case histories, key points and further reading