Description:This book provides up-to-date, practical information for family doctors on how to assess and manage important mental health problems presenting in primary care settings.Patients frequently present with mental health problems in primary care settings around the world, yet family doctors consistently identify gaps in their knowledge, skills and confidence in how best to care for them. Contributors are experts in primary mental health care and have consulted with family doctors around the world, to identify their main learning needs. Each of the nine core chapters will begin with a set of key points on 'how to do it' and will end with educational material in the form of clinical scenarios and multiple choice questions. This book describes core competencies for primary mental health care, clarifies how to conduct a first consultation about depression, review non-drug interventions for common mental health problems, discuss the management of unexplained physical symptoms, and advise on the physical health care of patients with severe mental illness. It explores the mental health needs of migrants and young people, and explains how to manage problems of frailty, multimorbidity and dementia.This book will be of interest to family doctors and students specializing in family medicine worldwide.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Global Primary Mental Health Care: Practical Guidance for Family Doctors. To get started finding Global Primary Mental Health Care: Practical Guidance for Family Doctors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Global Primary Mental Health Care: Practical Guidance for Family Doctors
Description: This book provides up-to-date, practical information for family doctors on how to assess and manage important mental health problems presenting in primary care settings.Patients frequently present with mental health problems in primary care settings around the world, yet family doctors consistently identify gaps in their knowledge, skills and confidence in how best to care for them. Contributors are experts in primary mental health care and have consulted with family doctors around the world, to identify their main learning needs. Each of the nine core chapters will begin with a set of key points on 'how to do it' and will end with educational material in the form of clinical scenarios and multiple choice questions. This book describes core competencies for primary mental health care, clarifies how to conduct a first consultation about depression, review non-drug interventions for common mental health problems, discuss the management of unexplained physical symptoms, and advise on the physical health care of patients with severe mental illness. It explores the mental health needs of migrants and young people, and explains how to manage problems of frailty, multimorbidity and dementia.This book will be of interest to family doctors and students specializing in family medicine worldwide.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Global Primary Mental Health Care: Practical Guidance for Family Doctors. To get started finding Global Primary Mental Health Care: Practical Guidance for Family Doctors, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.