Published June, 2010
By Jed Boardman, Alan Currie, Helen Killaspy and Gillian Mezey
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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This book is concerned with social exclusion and mental disorder and the steps that psychiatrists and mental health workers can take to facilitate the social inclusion of people with mental health problems. An invaluable resource for mental health professionals, medical educators, policy makers, mental health service providers and charities.

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Published May, 2010
By Dinesh Bhugra, Rahul Bhattacharya and Sean Cross
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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Cultural factors play an important role in the way psychiatric symptoms are presented to clinicians and how clinicians deal with them. This book contains various papers offering practical advice for the individual practitioner.

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Published March, 2010
By Greg Richardson, Ian Partridge and Jonathan Barrett
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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This book details the methods of developing a structure and strategy for providing child and adolescent mental health services. Principles and practicalities of how to deliver services are explained in straightforward operational terms. Updated in accordance with recent government policy.

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Published October, 2009
By Linda Gask, Helen Lester and Tony Kendrick
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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Primary care is the first port of call for people with mental health problems and it plays an increasingly important role in the provision of care - for both common and very severe problems. This textbook of mental health and the primary care setting provides practical advice for the clinician - especially useful for GPs.

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Published June, 2009
By Peter J. Tyrer
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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When other therapies have had little effect, nidotherapy treatment involves analysing a person's environment and changing it to suit them, so that their well-being and sense of belonging are improved. This is a guide to nidotherapy; a new concept in mental health.

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Published June, 2009
By Chris Cook, Andrew Powell, Andrew Sims and Christopher C. H. Cook
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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This book explores the nature of spirituality, its relationship to religion, and the reasons for its importance in clinical practice. Different chapters focus on the key subspecialties of psychiatry, including psychotherapy, child and adolescent psychiatry, intellectual disability psychiatry, substance misuse psychiatry and old age psychiatry.

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Published May, 2009
By Tony Kaplan
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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Offers information that practitioners need to know about dealing with children and young people who present, with their families, in an emergency department with mental health problems. This book provides a framework of knowledge on child and adolescent mental health problems and what to do about them.

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Published March, 2009
By Carol A. Henshaw, John Cox and Joanne Barton
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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Provides an overview of perinatal psychiatric disorder for both trainees in perinatal psychiatry and the general adult psychiatrist who wishes to know more on the subject. This book addresses both newly onset and existing mental disorders presenting in pregnancy and the postpartum, issues for children and families, and prescribing in pregnancy.

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Published March, 2009
By Jeremy Turk and Sarah Bernard
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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This book will help clinicians, service managers and commissioners to develop the necessary skills mental health services for children and adolescents with learning disabilities. It provides a comprehensive overview of epidemiology, mental health disorders and their clinical presentations, multidisciplinary assessment and intervention, and multi-agency working.

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Published January, 2009
By Femi Oyebode
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
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This book explores the fruitful relationships between the written word and central aspects of psychiatric practice. Although written by psychiatrists primarily for psychiatrists, this collection offers a fascinating and accessible insight into mental illness through the pages of novels, poetry and autobiographies to be found in any bookshop.

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