Main description:

This is an up-to-date overview of a wide range of common clinical areas involving the interface between physical and psychological health, that fall within the liaison psychiatry sub-specialty. It provides practical advice for clinicians to use in their daily practice when carrying out psychiatric assessment and treatment in the general hospital setting. There are chapters on alcohol and substance misuse in the general hospital, HIV and liaison psychiatry, palliative care, disaster management and psychosexual problems. For liaison psychiatrists who are involved in developing new services, there are chapters on service development and management. It also includes a chapter of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and extended matching items (EMIs) for self-testing. This book is part of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' flagship College Seminars Series of textbooks.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Basic skills and competencies in liaison psychiatry. Chapter 2: The liaison psychiatry curriculum. Chapter 3: Classification and diagnosis. Chapter 4: Capacity and consent. Chapter 5: Psychological reaction to physical illness. Chapter 6: Medically unexplained symptoms. Chapter 7: Alcohol and substance use in the general hospital. Chapter 8: Accident and emergency psychiatry and self-harm. Chapter 9: Perinatal psychiatry. Chapter 10: General medicine and its specialties. Chapter 11: Liaison psychiatry and surgery. Chapter 12: Neuropsychiatry for liaison psychiatrists. Chapter 13: Psycho-oncology. Chapter 14: Palliative care psychiatry. Chapter 15: Sleep disorders. Chapter 16: Weight- and eating-related issues in liaison psychiatry. Chapter 17: Disaster management. Chapter 18: Liaison psychiatry and older people. Chapter 19: Paediatric liaison psychiatry. Chapter 20: Primary care and management of long-term conditions. Chapter 21: Occupational medicine. Chapter 22: HIV and liaison psychiatry. Chapter 23: Sexual dysfunction. Chapter 24: Psychopharmacology in the medically ill. Chapter 25: Psychological treatments in liaison psychiatry. Chapter 26: Research, audit and rating scales. Chapter 27: Service Models. Chapter 28: Developing liaison psychiatry services. Chapter 29: Multiple choice questions. Appendix 1: Specific competencies. Appendix 2: Learning objectives with assessment guidance. Appendix 3: DSM-IV criteria for eating disorders.