Authors:Chris Cook,  Andrew Powell, Andrew Simm,
Publisher: RCPsych Publicatio
Keywords: psychiatry, spirituality
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1904671713
ISBN-13: 9781904671718

Spirituality is a crucial but sometimes overlooked aspect of mental well-being.Explores the nature of spirituality, its relationship to religion, and the reasons for its importance in psychiatric clinical practice.A comprehensive and evidence-based text.Different chapters focus on the key sub-specialities of psychiatry.Contains references to up to date research and a review of the relevant academic literature. Contributors include renowned psychiatrists, four Reverends and a service user. Table Of ContentsForeword Preface Spirituality and Psychiatry SIG of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Sp

Author: David P.H. Jone
Publisher: RCPsych Publicatio
Keywords: children, vulnerable, communicating
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1901242919
ISBN-13: 9781901242911

Communicating with Vulnerable Children provides a wealth of practical suggestions for all professionals who work with children and young people. It explains how best to communicate when the child has suffered adversity, such as experiences of harm and abuse, or witnessing violence or other distressing events. The focus is on helping children provide full and accurate accounts of their experiences without suggestion from an adult.Each chapter sets out the relevant policy and procedural context and reviews the available evidence, then gives recommendations and practical advice about how best to

Authors:Ian Berg,  Jean Nursten, I. Berg,
Publisher: RCPsych Publicatio
Keywords: school, unwillingly
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0902241893
ISBN-13: 9780902241893

This book describes the epidemiological aspects of school absence and offers practical help to those who are faced with helping children who fail to attend school. A multi-disciplinary approach to truancy and school refusal if put forward, drawing on experience from the UK, the USA, Sweden and New Zealand. The clinical features of the various underlying conditions are also demonstrated, and the future prospects of those who display this problem outlined. This new edition of a well-respected book has been comprehensively rewritten to take into account current thinking and research.Also availabl

Authors:Leon Eisenberg, David Goldberg, John Cooper, Giovanni
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Keywords: internationally, health, mental, promoting
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1901242374
ISBN-13: 9781901242379

To mark the retirement of Dr Norman Sartorius in 1974 from his post as Director of the Division of Mental Health of the World Health Organisation, the editors (all long-standing advisors and collaborators with the WHO programme) have brought together contributions from a mixture of advisor, collaborators and WHO staff members.The chapters provide descriptions and commentaries on the main aspects of the last 30 years of the WHO programme in mental health, which has constituted a unique and productive era in international collaboration, both in research and exchange of information. The major top

Authors:Ranga Rao, Ranga Rao,
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Keywords: psychiatry, osces
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1904671179
ISBN-13: 9781904671176

Part of the College Seminars Series.OSCEs in Psychiatry is a practical guide for candidates preparing for the Observed Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) of the MRCPsych. The first part of the book gives tips on preparing for and passing the exam. The second part explores the skills tested in the different OSCE stations that a candidate is likely to encounter.The book is backed up by an accompanying CD-ROM, on which interactive video footage allows prospective candidates to experience virtual OSCE stations and test their own performance.Tips for trainees on how to pass the OSCE exam. Explo

Authors:Eilish Gilvarry, Ilana Crome, Hamid Ghodse, Paul McAr
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Keywords: misuse, substance, people
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1904671012
ISBN-13: 9781904671015

Substance misuse is one of the most common and serious yet preventable risks to a young persons health and development. This book provides an overview of the consequences of substance misuse, the interventions and services available, and, most importantly, the way forward for improving treatment and services. Young People and Substance Misuse brings international expertise together with a UK health care perspective. It will give the reader an in-depth understanding of the issues as well as suggesting practical solutions to a problem that affects so many aspects of the well-being of teenagers.T

Authors:John E. Cooper, Norman Sartorius, John Cooper, N. Sar
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Keywords: china, disorders, mental
Number of Pages: 115
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0902241931
ISBN-13: 9780902241930

This is the only account in English of the 1982 Chinese National Epidemiological Survey of Mental Disorder, which is still the only study carried out in China involving the large scale use of modern methods of case assessment. The extensive and detailed data will provide essential reading for those interested in mental health in this vast country.Twelve centres in different parts of China studied a rural and an urban sample of 500 households each, giving a total sample of 51,982 persons. The use of the Present State Examination in the survey allows the symptomatic basis of diagnoses, such as n