Clinical skills in psychiatric treatment /
Rob Poole and Robert Higgo.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Cambridge clinical guides .
- Cambridge clinical guides. .
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Starting points -- A triangle of forces -- Treatment objectives -- Strategic treatment -- Teams -- Team work -- Inpatient treatment in the era of community psychiatry -- Compulsion and locked doors -- Not at home, not in hospital -- Models of care -- Engagement -- Compliance and concordance -- Treatment resistance -- Complicated problems -- Managing risk -- Staying well -- Coping with dilemmas -- Coping with change.
Effective and capable clinicians need to develop strong interpersonal, intellectual and organisational abilities. This practical and accessible text explores clinical skills that are increasingly assessed in training, postgraduate examinations, continuing professional development programmes and reaccreditation appraisals. It is concerned with balancing the demands of the patient's life circumstances with lessons from empirical science and clinical experience. These skills help clinicians to put interventions together into effective treatment plans, and to develop strategies that facilitate recovery from mental illness. This book is written from a multidisciplinary perspective and it explores new ways of working. Although it is primarily addressed to psychiatrists, it is relevant to mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and clinical psychologists.