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Primary prevention of childhood mental health problems / Quentin Spender and Peter Hill -- Primary prevention: assessing the relevance of life-events and difficulties among primary care attenders / Tirril Harris -- The prevention of postnatal depression / Deborah Sharp -- Bereavement / Colin Murray Parkes -- Preventing mental illness amongst people of ethnic minorities / Sangeeta Patel -- The prevention of mental illness in people with learning disability / Jenny Curran and Sheila Hollins -- The role of counselling in primary prevention / Roslyn Corney -- Secondary prevention of childhood mental health problems / Peter Hill and Quentin Spender -- The secondary prevention of depression / André Tylee -- The prevention of anxiety disorders / Helen Kennerley -- The prevention of eating disorders / Frances Raphael -- The prevention of alcohol and drug misuse / Hugh Williams and Hamid Ghodse -- Early detection of psychosis in primary care: initial treatment and crisis management / Tom Burns -- Tertiary prevention of childhood mental health problems / Jeremy Turk -- Tertiary prevention: longer-term drug treatment in depression / Eugene Paykel -- Tertiary prevention in depression: cognitive therapy and other psychological treatments / Jan Scott -- The regular review of patients with schizophrenia in primary care / Geraldin Strathdee and Tony Kendrick -- The prevention of social disability in schizophrenia / Elizabeth Kuipers -- Organising continuing care of the long-term mentally ill in general practice / Tony Kendrick -- The prevention of suicide / Philip Seager.

With increasing international emphasis on care in the community and pressure on resources, the prevention of mental illness within primary care is becoming an important consideration. Up to a third of patients presenting to primary care services are suffering from psychological problems and the large majority are dealt with by the primary health care team. Within this volume, experts from a wide range of mental health care disciplines discuss issues ranging from primary prevention with identification of risk through to early identification of problem symptoms and the effective management of long-term mental illness. With full reference to the current state of research, emphasis has been given to practical measures that can be readily utilised in the primary care setting. This handbook will serve as an invaluable resource for all those with interests in the protection and conservation of mental health. This book was highly commended in the Primary Care category of the British Medical Association Book Award.