Overview

This revised text presents student doctors, mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, mental health advocates and mental health therapists with a problem-based approach to psychiatry.

Content and Features

It contains numerous case studies, allowing a problem-based approach to core information and reflecting the processes that underlie clinical decision making.

Edition Updates

This second edition is upgraded, expanded and updated, including details of the best modern web based resources.

Teaching Approach

Its problem-based approach to teaching is at the forefront of the delivery of modern medical school curricula, and includes additional new case scenarios and current opinion on mental disorders and their treatment using both drug therapy and psychotherapy.

Latest Practices

It fully reflects the latest practice and recent changes in mental health provision.