The Psychiatry at a Glance is a user-friendly and accessible textbook for all psychiatry students. It aids in the development of skills regarding history taking and the execution of the Brief Mental Status Examination, and presents essential information regarding basic science, treatment, and management of major disorders.

This edition includes:

• Thorough updating and reorganization of the illustrations, providing greater clarity and better understanding for those new to the subject
• Increased emphasis on history taking and examination – a necessary element of clinical practice
• New chapters on mental health capacity and coverage of healthcare legislation in Australia and New Zealand
• More Extensive Matching Questions, brand new Single Best Answer Questions, and sample scoring sheets for the OSCE to test your knowledge.

The Psychiatry at a Glance is the ideal companion handbook for anyone starting a course in psychiatry and will assist medical students, resident physicians, and trainee psychiatrists, as well as nursing students and other healthcare professionals.

Foreword vi

Foreword of the Greek edition vii

Assessment and management

1. Psychiatric history 8
2. Mental status examination 10
3. Diagnosis and classification in psychiatry 12
4. Risk assessment and management in psychiatry 14
5. Suicide and deliberate self-harm 16
6. Psychiatry of demographic groups
7. Substance and alcohol abuse
8. Psychiatry and physical illness
9. Psychiatric treatment interventions
10. Anatomy and psychopharmacology
11. Further study
12. Glossary
13. Index