Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry: Fourth Edition

Sidney Bloch, Stephen A. Green, Aleksandar Janca, Philip B. Mitchell, Michael Robertson
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Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry: Fourth Edition

Published

3 January 2017

ISBN

9780522870954

Edition

Fourth

Pages

612

Imprint

Melbourne University Press

Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry: Fourth Edition

Sidney Bloch, Stephen A. Green, Aleksandar Janca, Philip B. Mitchell, Michael Robertson
Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry is the trusted introductory text for students of medicine and other health professions, including psychiatric nursing, psychology, social work and occupational therapy. It has also been the essential reference for family doctors for over quarter of a century.

Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry: Fourth Edition has been revised and updated by five editors, leaders in their fields, in collaboration with a new generation of expert psychiatrists. The four-part structure—an introduction to clinical psychiatry; conditions encountered; specific patient groups and clinical settings; and principles and details of typical clinical services, and of biological and psychological treatments—provides a clear overview of clinical practice. It also explores the causes of mental illness and the ethical aspects of its treatment, and covers the full range of psychiatric disorders encountered by health practitioners.

The fourth edition emphasises biological, psychological and social factors in assessing and treating patients, includes the integrated use of…
Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry is the trusted introductory text for students of medicine and other health professions, including psychiatric nursing, psychology, social work and occupational therapy. It has also been the essential reference for family doctors for over quarter of a century.

Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry: Fourth Edition has been revised and updated by five editors, leaders in their fields, in collaboration with a new generation of expert psychiatrists. The four-part structure—an introduction to clinical psychiatry; conditions encountered; specific patient groups and clinical settings; and principles and details of typical clinical services, and of biological and psychological treatments—provides a clear overview of clinical practice. It also explores the causes of mental illness and the ethical aspects of its treatment, and covers the full range of psychiatric disorders encountered by health practitioners.

The fourth edition emphasises biological, psychological and social factors in assessing and treating patients, includes the integrated use of DSM-5 classification, and provides further reading suggestions. It is richly illustrated with dozens of clinical stories.

Sidney Bloch

Award-winning author Sidney Bloch AM, MB ChB, PhD, DPM, FRCPsych, FRANZCP is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne, and Honorary Psychiatrist at St Vincent's Hospital. He has been Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry and Chief Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. His 14 books, many of which have been translated, deal with the psychotherapies, psycho-oncology…

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Stephen A. Green

Stephen A. Green MD, MA is the Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University, USA.

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Aleksandar Janca

Aleksandar Janca MD, MSc, FRCPsych, FRANZCP is the Winthrop Professor of Psychiatry, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Western Australia.

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Philip B. Mitchell

Philip B. Mitchell AM, FASSA, MB BS (Hons I), MD, FRCPsych, FRANZCP is Head of the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales.

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Michael Robertson

Michael Robertson MBBS (Hons), PhD, FRANZCP is Clinical Associate Professor of Mental Health Ethics at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney.

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