Psychiatry: An Oxford Core Text (Oxford Core Texts)

by etc. (Author), Michael G. Gelder (Author), John Geddes (Author), Richard Mayou (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.24

  Formerly The Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry this text has been redesigned for the Oxford Core Texts series in two colours. This is a short practical textbook for clinical medical students, as well as clinicians and health workers who see patients with psychiatric problems in the course of their practice. The text emphasizes the assessment of psychiatric problems and focuses on their management in everyday clinical practice, giving advice on the management and referral of patients to specialist psychiatrists. In this edition there are numerous tables, advanced information boxes and other features to make the book easy-to-use. There is also a new section on taking an evidence-based approach to psychiatry. The book is intended primarily for medical students in their clinical years, but also for general practitioners and social work and clinical psychology students.

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.75

  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. 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; and includes genuine case histories, key points and further reading.