Psychiatric Clinical Skills

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Publication Year:
2010

ISBN-13: 9781770523814

<p><em>Psychiatric Clinical Skills</em> is a practical guide to engaging and assessing people who have mental health problems. Written by a team of experienced clinicians, it focuses on “what to ask” and “how to ask” and covers a wide spectrum of clinical problems and settings. It includes a chapter written from the perspective of people who live with mental health problems.</p>

<p>As well as covering the full range of mental health disorders, the guide includes informaition about:</p>

<ul>

<li>culture competence</li>

<li>assessment of children, adolescents and older adults</li>

<li>assessment of families</li>

<li>use of standardized rating scales</li>

<li>documentation.</li>

</ul>

<p>Each chapter includes easy-to-use features such as clinical vignettes, chapter overviews and key-point summaries.</p>