Psychiatric and mental health essentials in primary care / Lee Ann Hoff and Betty D. Morgan.

[This book] "addresses key mental health concepts and strategies for time-pressured practitioners in various healthcare settings serving diverse populations. It offers theoretically sound guidelines for compassionate, efficient, and effective service, capturing the essentials of mental health c...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hoff, Lee Ann
Other Authors: Morgan, Betty D., 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical overview and generalist/specialist roles
  • Mental health assessment and service planning
  • Crisis care basics in primary care
  • Suicidal and self-destructive persons
  • Violence and sexual assault
  • The anxious patient
  • Problems of depression and mood disorders
  • The person with schizophrenia
  • Substance abuse, addiction, and mental health
  • Chronic pain in medical and psychiatric illness
  • Children, adolescents, and family issues
  • The older person, preventive mental health, cognitive impairment, and end-of-life issues
  • Complementary and alternatives treatments-CAM.