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The completely revised and updated Textbook of Psychiatry for Southern Africa, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive but accessible resource covering all aspects of psychiatry and mental health in southern Africa. The textbook represents the collaboration of 63 experts in their fields from 10 academic institutions as well as the private sector in South Africa from disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, radiology and pharmacology. This 2nd Edition includes sections focusing on psychiatric classification and clinical assessment, including issues of particular importance such as women's mental health, neuropsychiatry, HIV and mental health, addictions, culture and psychiatry, public mental health, and stigma. Non-core additional information in 'advanced reading blocks' are aimed at the specialist-level reader. Numerous informative case studies to illustrate common real-life patient presentations of various disorders have been included. Updated to reflect the current Mental Health Care Act (2002) as well as DSM-5 psychiatric classification, the Textbook will be an indispensable resource for a wide range of students and professionals working within and outside of the mental health field in South Africa.

The completely revised and updated Textbook of Psychiatry for Southern Africa, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive but accessible resource covering all aspects of psychiatry and mental health in southern Africa. The textbook represents the collaboration of 63 experts in their fields from 10 academic institutions as well as the private sector in South Africa from disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, radiology and pharmacology. This 2nd Edition includes sections focusing on psychiatric classification and clinical assessment, including issues of particular importance such as women's mental health, neuropsychiatry, HIV and mental health, addictions, culture and psychiatry, public mental health, and stigma. Non-core additional information in 'advanced reading blocks' are aimed at the specialist-level reader. Numerous informative case studies to illustrate common real-life patient presentations of various disorders have been included. Updated to reflect the current Mental Health Care Act (2002) as well as DSM-5 psychiatric classification, the Textbook will be an indispensable resource for a wide range of students and professionals working within and outside of the mental health field in South Africa.

Features

  • Updated with latest DSM-V
  • Frequent case studies that illustrate the complexity of disorders and build a practical understanding of mental health care
  • Based on the best current evidence from both research and clinical practice in southern Africa.
  • A glossary of more than 400 terms used in psychiatry and mental health, including local terms common to Southern Africa.

Part 1: Conceptualising Psychiatric Disorders
1A brief history of Psychiatry
2Classification in Psychiatry
Part 2: Causes Of Psychiatric Disorders
3Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics
4The Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders
5Psychosocial Determinants of Mental Disorders
6Culture and Psychiatry
Part 3: Assessment Of Psychiatric Disorders
7Clinical Assessment in Psychiatry
8Person-Centred psychiatry
9Investigating Psychiatric Disorders
Part 4: Psychiatric Disorders
10Cognitive Disorders
11Schizophrenia & Other Psychotic Disorders
12Depressive Disorders
13Bipolar Disorders
14Anxiety, Fear and Panic
15Acute Reactions to Adverse Life Events
16Trauma
17Obsessive- compulsive and related disorders
18Somatic symptom and related disorders
19Dissociative Disorders
20Alcohol-Related Disorders
21Other Substance-Related and addictive Disorders
22Eating and Sleep Disorders
23Disorders of Sexual Function, Preference and Identity
24Personality and Personality Disorders
25Impulse Control Disorders
Part 5: Special Topics in Psychiatry
26Women's Mental Health
27Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 1: Assessment and the young child
28Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2: The older child and adolescent
29Intellectual Disability
30Psychogeriatrics
31Psychiatry and Medicine
32Neuropsychiatry
33HIV and Mental Health
34Suicide and the aggressive patient
35Legal and Ethical Aspects of Mental Health
Part 6: Management Of Psychiatric Disorders
36Pharmacological and other Treatments in Psychiatry
37Psychological Interventions
38Social Interventions in Psychiatry
39Public Mental Health
40Combating Stigma in psychiatry
The textbook is designed for students and health professionals studying and working within Southern Africa, including medical students, registrars in psychiatry and undergraduate and postgraduate students in other health care disciplines including Nursing,Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Pharmacy, Family Medicine and Public Health.
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