This book is essential reading for all Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and those students and practitioners on mental health Post-Qualifying awards. It covers the core competencies of the AMHP and how the use of medication fits within the roles of the mental health professional. Fully updated to include aspects of the recently amended Mental Health Act 1983, this guide shows how the law is applied to compulsory administration of medication, the law relating to consent to treatment and the relevance to the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Yes, you can access The Approved Mental Health Professional′s Guide to Psychiatry and Medication by Robert Brown, Gwen Adshead, Alan Pollard, Robert Brown,Gwen Adshead,Alan Pollard in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Social Work. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Contents
List of abbreviations
About the authors
Foreword from the series editor
Preface
1 The importance of psychiatry and medication for Approved Mental Health Professionals
2 Psychiatrists: training and how they practise
3 An overview of psychiatry and classificiation
4 Psychotic disorders
5 Neurotic disorders, substance abuse and personality disorders
6 Forensic psychiatry
7 Psychiatry of old age
8 Psychiatry and risk assessment
9 Patients as parents
10 Child and adolescent psychiatry
11 Treatment issues in psychiatry
12 Classification of medication in psychiatry
13 Anti-depressants and mood stabilisers
14 Anti-psychotics (BNF section 4.2)
15 Anxiolytics and sedative/hypnotics (BNF section 4.1)
16 Older adults, children, unlicensed drugs
17 The law and psychiatric treatment
18 Treatment under the Mental Health Act
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