| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 130 pages) |
| Series |
Post-qualifying social work practice |
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Post-qualifying social work practice.
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| Contents |
The importance of psychiatry and medication for AMHPs; Psychiatrists: training and how they practise; An overview of psychiatry and classification; Psychotic disorders; Neurotic disorders, substance abuse and personality disorders; Forensic psychiatry; Psychiatry of old age; Psychiatry and risk assessment; Patients as parents; Child and adolescent psychiatry; Treatment issues in psychiatry; Classification of medication in psychiatry; Anti-depressants and mood stabilisers; Anti-psychotics; Anxiolytics, sedative/hypnotics, substance abuse; Older adults, children, unlicensed drugs; The law and psychiatric treatment; Treatment under the Mental Health Act |
| Summary |
This book is essential reading for all Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and those students and practitioners on mental health Post-Qualifying awards. It covers the core competencies of the AMHP and how the use of medication fits within the roles of the mental health professional. Fully updated to include aspects of the recently amended Mental Health Act 1983, this guide shows how the law is applied to compulsory administration of medication, the law relating to consent to treatment and the relevance to the European Convention on Human Rights |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-122) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Psychiatric social work -- Great Britain
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Mental illness -- Treatment.
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Psychotropic drugs.
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Psychiatry
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Mental Health -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Psychotropic Drugs
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Mental Disorders -- therapy
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Mental illness -- Treatment
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Psychiatric social work
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Psychotropic drugs
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adshead, Gwen
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Pollard, A
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| ISBN |
9781844458301 |
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184445830X |
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9786612484643 |
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6612484640 |
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9781844455539 |
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184445553X |
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