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Psychiatric Clinical Skills: Revised
Author(s): David S. Goldbloom (Author)
- Publisher: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
- Publication Date: 30 Mar. 2009
- Edition: Revised ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 404 pages
- ISBN-10: 1770523782
- ISBN-13: 9781770523784
Book Description
Psychiatric Clinical Skills is a practical guide to engaging and assessing people who have mental health problems. Written by a team of experienced clinicians, it focuses on “what to ask” and “how to ask” and covers a wide spectrum of clinical problems and settings. It includes a chapter written from the perspective of people who live with mental health problems. As well as covering the full range of mental health disorders, the guide includes informaition about: – culture competence – assessment of children, adolescents and older adults – assessment of families – use of standardized rating scales – documentation. Each chapter includes easy-to-use features such as clinical vignettes, chapter overviews and keypoint summaries.
