Basant Puri – Psychiatry. An Evidence-based Text

Автор: Basant Puri
Название книги: Psychiatry. An Evidence-based Text
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Психология
Страницы: 1336
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Succinct, user-friendly, thoroughly referenced and prepared by leading experts in the field, this book is the only single textbook you will need to succeed in the Royal College of Psychiatrists' MRCPsych and other related higher examinations.

Chapters follow the structure and syllabus of the examination ensuring that you receive the necessary essential information to pass and indeed succeed
Approachable and succinct text with colour illustrations and key summary points further help to clarify complex concepts and provide you with useful revision tools
The evidence-based approach used throughout is important to help you relate theory and research to clinical practice
The book is carefully structured and sequenced to building upon the basic sciences underpinning psychiatry, through to an in-depth description of pharmacological and psychological treatments used.

Among the many demands on modern psychiatrists is
keeping up to date with the ever-increasing pace of the
development of psychiatric knowledge in recent years, both
in the biological and psychosocial spheres. The basic
sciences of psychology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology,
neuroendocrinology, neuroimaging, neuropathology,
genetics, biochemistry, pharmacology, neuroscience,
epidemiology and social sciences have now led to a better
understanding of the basic mechanisms underlying clinical
disorders. Sub-specialties of psychiatry have rapidly
developed and the practice of psychiatry has increasingly
moved from institutions to the community. Clinicians are
now under pressure to deliver high quality cost-effective
patient-focused care based upon the best evidence
available.
The aim of this volume is to provide an up-to-date, solid,
evidence-based text. Many of our contributors are
acknowledged international leaders in their respective
fields, have often been centrally involved at the forefront of
shaping psychiatric research and practice and have, as a
result, a first-hand feel of the evidence base of their
contributions. The strength of the evidence base does still
vary widely in different fields of psychiatry, but with the
development of national guidelines, systematic reviews and
meta-analyses, individual, sometimes idiosyncratic, clinical
practices of the past are now no longer acceptable unless
based on evidence. Thus, even if not entirely evidence
based, psychiatry should always be evidence informed.
Psychiatrists who increasingly work in multidisciplinary
teams and whose practice is now increasingly challenged
by other professionals, managers and, indeed, patients, now
have to be able to defend the evidence base to their
practice, if they are to maintain their medical leadership
role in psychiatric practice.
In this book, we aim to comprehensively describe the basic
sciences and clinical disorders and their treatments – using
the UK and Ireland MRCPsych syllabus as a guide – while
emphasising the evidence underlying theory and practice
for the topics covered. However, we believe that this book
will cater not only for trainee psychiatrists studying for the
MRCPsych examinations, but also for trainees elsewhere
and, indeed, will provide a valuable resource for
psychiatrists who have completed their training and other
professionals who work in psychiatry.
To facilitate the aim of this project, the book is divided into
major sections and 79 chapters in a carefully considered
order. Chapters have been standardised and cross
referenced and include important and up to date references
and generous use of tables, figures, boxes and pictures. At
the end of each chapter major learning points are identified.
While the book strives to provide an integrated overview of
current knowledge through its sections and chapters,
,chapters have also been designed to stand alone, which
inevitably implies some overlap in content between
chapters which we hope has been kept to an acceptable
minimum.
We hope this book will achieve wide acceptance through its
succinct, user-friendly approach and its recognition of the
importance of a solid evidence base for psychiatric practice.
While a text book alone does not make a good psychiatrist,
we hope this one will provide the sound foundation of
evidence-based theoretical knowledge required for the
competent practising clinician of today.
Basant K Puri