Mental Health for Primary Care: a Practical Guide for Non-Specialists

Content: Front Cover
 Contents
 Foreword
 Preface
 About the author
 Acknowledgements
 Background concepts
 Part One: Causation
 Chapter 1: Vulnerability and resilience: personality
 Chapter 2: Stressors: precipitating factors
 Part Two: Problems
 Chapter 3: Assessment
 Chapter 4: Dementia and delirium/acute confusional state
 Chapter 5: Alcohol and drugs
 Chapter 6: Psychosis
 Chapter 7: Mood problems
 Chapter 8: Anxiety-related problems and medically unexplained symptoms
 Chapter 9: Personality issues
 Chapter 10: Eating disorders
 Part Three: Psychological tools. Chapter 11: Psychological tools: background considerationsChapter 12: Psychological tools: promoting change in a specific area
 Chapter 13: Psychological tools: tools for general use
 Part Four: Patient resources
 Advice for problem drinking
 Patient resources: anxiety biology
 Safer injecting
 Disordered eating: the risks and self-help
 Appendices
 Appendix 1: Alcohol questionnaires
 Appendix 2: Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale Questionnaire
 Appendix 3: Mini mental state examination
 Appendix 4: BMI Centile charts
 Back Cover.