Communication Skills in Mental Health Care

An Introduction

Xavier Coll, Alexia Papageorgiou, Ann Stanley, Andrew Tarbuck

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000878677
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology

Communicating effectively when addressing psychiatric and psychological problems in everyday practice can be difficult. This book provides a clear and concise guide on how to run consultations, using the Calgary-Cambridge Model. The model is applied to an extensive variety of mental health conditions, ranging from taking a good psychiatric history to specialist scenarios such as working with families and young people or breaking bad news in mental health. There are also practical and comprehensive chapters on anxiety, depression, psychosis, risk to self, mental capacity, dealing with emotions and mental health consultations in primary care. An accompanying downloadable resource enhances knowledge and promotes greater understanding through a series of simulated consultations which explore and answer the OSCE questions posed in the text. The practical, accessible and comprehensive approach helps clinicians increase their confidence in mental health consultations. It is also of great benefit to students wishing to improve their clinical skills and ultimately to pass their exams.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Preface
• About this book
• About the editors
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of figures and tables
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Taking a good psychiatric history
• 3 Mental health assessment of anxiety and depression
• 4 Assessing risk to self: suicide and self-harm
• 5 Information gathering in psychosis
• 6 Information giving and shared decision making in psychosis
• 7 Working with families and young people
• 8 Assessment of mental capacity
• 9 Dealing with emotions
• 10 Breaking bad news in mental health
• 11 Mental health consultations in primary care: managing the ‘heartsink patient’
• Appendix 1: Calgary–Cambridge guides
• Appendix 2: The psychiatric history
• Appendix 3: Adolescent psychosocial history: the HEEAADSSS + ICE protocol
• Appendix 4: Family tree (pedigree diagram for Kevin’s family history)
• Appendix 5: How to pass communication skills OSCEs in mental health
• Appendix 6: Example of OSCE mark sheets in mental health
• Appendix 7: OSCEs model answers
• Index