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• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• How To Use
• Copyright
• Series editor’s foreword
• Prefaces
• Acknowledgements
• Series editor’s acknowledgement
• Dedications
• RAPID UKMLA Index
• Section 1. General
• 1. Psychiatric assessment and diagnosis
• Interview technique
• Psychiatric history
• Collateral History
• Mental state examination
• Risk assessment
• Physical examination
• The formulation: presenting the case
• Classification in psychiatry
• 2. Pharmacological therapy and electroconvulsive therapy
• Antidepressants
• Mood stabilizers
• Antipsychotics
• Anxiolytic and hypnotic drugs
• Other drugs used in psychiatry
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• 3. Psychological therapy
• Psychotherapeutic approaches
• Indications for psychological therapy
• 4. Mental health and the law
• mental health act 1983 as amended by the mental health act 2007
• Mental Health (Care & Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
• The Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland, 2016)
• Common law
• Human rights legislation
• Fitness to drive
• 5. Mental health service provision
• History
• Primary care
• Secondary Care
• 6. The patient with thoughts of suicide or self-harm
• Definitions and clinical features
• Assessment of patients who have inflicted harm upon themselves
• Suicide risk factors
• Patient management following self-harm or attempted suicide
• Discussion of case study
• 7. Psychiatric emergencies
• Acute behavioural disturbance
• Adverse drug reactions
• Section 2. Presenting complaints
• 8. The patient with neurodevelopmental differences
• Definitions
• Clinical features and differential diagnosis
• Assessment
• Discussion of case study
• 9. The patient with psychotic symptoms
• Definitions and clinical features
• Differential diagnoses
• Algorithm for the diagnosis of psychotic disorders
• Assessment
• Discussion of case study
• 10. The patient with elated or irritable mood
• Definitions and clinical features
• Differential diagnosis
• Assessment
• Algorithm for the diagnosis of mood disorders
• Discussion of case study
• 11. The patient with low mood
• Definitions and clinical features
• Differential diagnosis
• Assessment
• Discussion of case study
• 12. The patient with anxiety, fear or avoidance
• Definitions and clinical features
• Differential diagnosis
• Assessment
• Discussion of case study
• 13. The patient with obsessions and compulsions
• Definitions and clinical features
• Differential diagnosis
• Discussion of case study
• 14. The patient with a reaction to a stressful event
• Definitions and clinical features
• Bereavement
• Prolonged grief disorder
• Differential diagnosis
• Discussion of case study
• 15. The patient with abnormal response to physical symptoms
• Definitions and clinical features
• Differential diagnosis
• Assessment
• Discussion of case study
• 16. The patient with eating, feeding or weight problems
• Definitions and clinical features
• Assessment
• Differential diagnosis of patients with low weight
• Discussion of case study
• 17. The patient with alcohol or substance use problems
• Definitions and clinical features
• Alcohol-related disorders
• Other substance-related disorders
• Differential diagnosis
• Assessment
• Discussion of case study
• 18. The patient with personality problems
• Definitions and clinical features
• Classification
• Assessment
• Differential diagnosis
• Discussion of case study
• 19. The patient with impairment of consciousness or cognition
• Definitions and clinical features
• Common cognitive disorders
• Differential diagnosis
• Assessment
• Discussion of case study
• Section 3. Cause and management
• 20. Dementia and delirium
• Dementia
• 21. Older adult psychiatry
• Mental illness in older adults
• Assessment considerations in older adults
• Treatment considerations in older adults
• 22. Alcohol and substance disorders
• Alcohol disorders
• Other psychoactive substances
• Addictive disorders
• 23. The psychotic disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Schizoaffective disorder
• Delusional disorder
• Acute and transient psychoses
• 24. The mood (affective) disorders
• Depressive disorders
• Bipolar disorder
• Dysthymia and cyclothymia
• 25. The anxiety, stress-related, OCD-related and bodily distress disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Stress-related disorders
• Obsessive–compulsive and related disorders
• Dissociative disorders and bodily distress disorder
• 26. Eating disorders
• Anorexia and bulimia nervosa
• Binge-eating disorder
• 27. The sleep–wake disorders
• Definitions and classification
• 28. Sexual problems and disorders
• Sexual dysfunction
• Disorders of sexual preference (paraphilias)
• Gender incongruence
• 29. Disorders relating to the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and the puerperium
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Menopause
• Psychiatric considerations in pregnancy
• Puerperal disorders
• Perinatal substance misuse
• 30. The personality disorders
• The personality disorders
• 31. Intellectual disability
• Epidemiology and aetiology
• 32. The neurodevelopmental disorders
• Autism spectrum disorder
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorders
• Tourette syndrome
• 33. Child and adolescent psychiatry
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Attachment
• Epidemiology
• Mental illness in children and adolescents
• Child abuse
• Assessment considerations in young people
• 34. Forensic psychiatry
• Mental disorder and crime
• Assessing and managing risk of violence
• Considerations in court proceedings
• 35. Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) – sample questions
• Overview of sample questions
• History of cognitive decline from a relative
• History of low mood
• Assessing risk to self
• Brief alcohol intervention
• Schizophrenia explanation and advice
• History of anxiety
• Clinical cases
• High yield association table
• Self-Assessment
• UKMLA High Yield Association Table
• UKMLA Single Best Answer (SBA) Questions
• UKMLA SBA Answers
• OSCEs and Short Clinical Cases
• Glossary
• Index