A Guide to Psychiatric Examination 1st Edition PDF

How to use this book
This book is written to help make you a better assessor of people presenting with mental health problems. Although it is not intended to be a substitute for a good psychiatry textbook, we do try to give some understanding of what it is you are assessing. The book has extra content online, and you can access this using the login code provided with this book.
We had three groups in mind when writing this book:
• Medical students and other trainees who are spending
some time in training with a mental health service and
want to become adept and confident in taking a history
and mental state examination – read Sections 1 and 2,
and there is also some help in preparing for the
psychiatry examination in Section 7.
• Doctors who are either starting training, refreshing their
skills, or preparing for clinical examinations, or those
working in specific services like general hospitals or
with specific groups like older people, will benefit from
the whole book. The in-depth topics in Section 6
should help provide a more advanced knowledge of a
topic.
• Nursing and allied health team professionals and
students who work in or have a placement with
multidisciplinary teams should also find the book useful
to build up a solid basis for a good assessment but
may want to initially avoid Section 6.