Description
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Bedside Psychiatry(Indian Psychiatric Society Publication) by Arabinda N Chowdhury
The present volume, Bedside Psychiatry, has been uniquely designed for all medical graduates who are being trained in Psychiatry. Its approach is practical, covering almost all areas of psychiatric interview and examination.
The book includes skills of collecting most relevant and valid piece of information from patients and their attendants, supplemented by systematic and insightful physical and mental state assessment, and diagnostic formulation, undertaking required biomedical investigations, and psychometric evaluation leading to a management plan; furthermore, how to implement the plan with due care and expertise.
The inclusion of certain amount of theoretical information as appendix, which is of immediate relevance to the clinician, also adds to the value of the book.
Key Features:
• It is a milestone in the world of Indian psychiatric literature, admirably filling a very important vacant slot.
• Contains the distillate of life-time experience and felt need of a Senior Professor of psychiatry and a Teacher par-excellence, who has worked across the world.
• This is a brief compilation of all the relevant information usually needed for day-to-day psychiatric evaluation in adult psychiatry.
• 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.
• Helps to equipped with running clinical oral questions.
• Alongside with the practical clinical examination procedure, the relevant theoretical issues are provided in the ‘Appendix’ to offer a comprehensive insight about the clinical items.
• Presents comprehensive as well as ‘ready-to-use’ modules of evaluation of patients who present with mental symptoms.
• This book is sure to be of great help not only to young trainee psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, to whom it has been dedicated, but also as a reference book for experienced senior mental health professionals, inclusive of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers and psychiatric nurses.