Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book brings together selected topics from the popular journal Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. Readers will find expert advice on key elements of clinical practice presented against a backdrop of up-to-date and sharply focused reviews of the relevant literature.It discusses the evidence-based assessment of deliberate self-harm, and covers the special problems of general psychiatric practice when alcohol misuse and severe personality disorder complicate the picture. Chapters relating to depressive disorders begin by focusing on opportunities for psychosocial prevention, and liaison with primary care. There are comparisons of 'old' and 'new' antidepressants, and reviews of strategies for preventing relapse and recurrence and managing treatment-resistant depression. The special problems of emergency treatment and depression in older patients are identified.There are expert overviews of brief dynamic psychotherapy, cognitive approaches to treatment, lithium therapy and modern electroconvulsive therapy practice. Many chapters emphasise the importance of the rational integration of biological and psychological treatments. There is helpful advice on the specific problems in managing obsessive-compulsive and eating disorders, in dealing with somatisation and in providing support and treatment for the victims of severe trauma.This book covers many of the key challenges which present in day-to-day general adult psychiatric practice. Although it is aimed at all senior psychiatric trainees, their teachers and other mental health professionals, the book should be especially useful for trainees preparing for Part II of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Membership Examination.

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RCPsych Publications is the publishing arm of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (based in London, United Kingdom), which has been promoting excellence in mental health care since 1841. Produced by the same editorial team who publish The British Journal of Psychiatry, they sell books for both psychiatrists and other mental health professionals; and also many written for the general public. Their popular series include the College Seminars Series, the NICE mental health guidelines and the Books Beyond Words series for people with intellectual disabilities.

RCPsych publishes in all areas of psychiatry and mental health, including but not limited to:
Clinical psychiatric practice
Intellectual disability
Mental health services for children, adolescents, adults and the elderly
Psychopharmacology
Psychotherapy
Rehabilitation psychiatry
Family mental health
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RCPsych Publications books can help with the following disorders:
Addictions
Affective disorders
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Bereavement
Borderline personality disorder
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
Dementia
Depression
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Perinatal psychiatric disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Psychosis
Schizophrenia
Sleep problems