Bedside Psychiatry

by Arabinda N Chowdhury

The aim of this book is to focus on the bedside psychiatry. This book provides trainees in psychiatry with an overview of day to day patient evaluation and treatment planning. This book comprised of 2 sections, which include interview, clinical examination and management and appendices, which are further divided into 4 chapters. Chapter 1 begins with an introduction to the interview itself with reference to goals, process, and the key components of the physician-patient relationship. Chapter 2, History—is a guide to taking a comprehensive and thorough history. Chapter 3, Examination—emphasizes the importance of physical, central nervous system, and Mental State Examination (MSE) in a psychiatric evaluation. The chapter on Mental State Examination, as you would expect, gets particular attention. Chapter 3 concentrates on the traditional Mental State Examination including clarification and explanation of phenomenology. Chapter 4 consists of Diagnostic Formulation, Risk Assessments, Mental Capacity Assessment and Treatment Planning, Safeguarding, and Safe Prescribing. Appendices (Appendix 1 to 38) provide additional useful clinical reference material. This compilation helps the trainees to get all the important issues relating to examination and treatment planning along with their duties and obligation in a comprehensive manner and helps them to equip with some running clinical oral questions as well.

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