ABSTRACT

This new revision guide with over 1500 questions, reasoned answers and links to explanatory text gives a comprehensive range of multiple choice questions (MCQs) and extended matching items (EMIs). Complete with sample papers, this book provides everything you need for the written parts of the MRCPsych and comparable hi

part |2 pages

PART 1: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE

chapter 1|6 pages

History of psychiatry

chapter 2|2 pages

Introduction to evidence-based medicine

chapter 3|4 pages

History and philosophy of science

chapter 4|16 pages

Research methods and statistics

chapter 5|2 pages

Epidemiology

chapter 6|4 pages

How to practise evidence-based medicine

part |2 pages

PART 2: DEVELOPMENTAL, BEHAVIOURAL, AND SOCIOCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY

chapter 8|6 pages

Human development

chapter 9|2 pages

Introduction to basic psychology

chapter 10|4 pages

Awareness

chapter 11|4 pages

Stress

chapter 12|4 pages

Emotion

chapter 13|4 pages

Information-processing and attention

chapter 14|6 pages

Learning theory

chapter 15|4 pages

Motivation

chapter 16|6 pages

Perception

chapter 17|4 pages

Memory

chapter 18|4 pages

Language and thought

chapter 19|4 pages

Personality

chapter 20|4 pages

Social psychology

chapter 22|6 pages

Cultural psychiatry

part |2 pages

PART 3: NEUROSCIENCE

chapter 23|6 pages

Neuroanatomy

chapter 24|4 pages

Basic concepts in neurophysiology

chapter 25|6 pages

Neurophysiology of integrated behaviour

chapter 26|2 pages

Neurogenesis and cerebral plasticity

chapter 27|4 pages

The neuroendocrine system

chapter 30|10 pages

Neurochemistry

chapter 31|4 pages

Neuropathology

chapter 32|4 pages

Neuroimaging

chapter 33|4 pages

Genetics

part |2 pages

PART 4: MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND MENTAL ILLNESS

chapter 34|4 pages

Classification and diagnostic systems

chapter 35|4 pages

Cognitive assessment

chapter 36|6 pages

Neurology for psychiatrists

chapter 37|8 pages

Organic disorders

chapter 38|4 pages

Schizophrenia and paranoid psychoses

chapter 39|4 pages

Mood disorders/affective psychoses

chapter 40|4 pages

Neurotic and stress-related disorders

chapter 42|2 pages

Eating disorders

chapter 43|2 pages

Personality disorders

chapter 44|4 pages

Perinatal psychiatry

chapter 45|4 pages

Psychosexual medicine

chapter 46|2 pages

Gender identity disorders

chapter 47|4 pages

Paraphilias and sexual offenders

chapter 48|4 pages

Psychiatric assessment of physical illness

chapter 50|4 pages

Multiple chemical sensitivity

chapter 52|4 pages

Pain and psychiatry

chapter 53|6 pages

Sleep disorders

chapter 54|6 pages

Suicide and deliberate self-harm

chapter 55|2 pages

Emergency psychiatry

chapter 56|4 pages

Care of the dying and bereaved

part |2 pages

PART 5: APPROACHES TO TREATMENT

chapter 57|8 pages

Clinical psychopharmacology

chapter 58|2 pages

Electroconvulsive therapy

chapter 60|4 pages

Psychotherapy: an introduction

chapter 61|2 pages

Dynamic psychotherapy

chapter 62|4 pages

Family therapy

chapter 63|4 pages

Marital therapy

chapter 64|4 pages

Group therapy

chapter 65|4 pages

Cognitive-behavioural therapy

chapter 66|4 pages

Other individual psychotherapies

chapter 67|2 pages

Therapeutic communities

chapter 68|2 pages

Effectiveness of psychotherapy

part |2 pages

PART 6: CLINICAL SPECIALITIES

chapter 69|6 pages

Addiction psychiatry

chapter 70|6 pages

Child and adolescent psychiatry

chapter 71|4 pages

Learning disability psychiatry

chapter 72|4 pages

Old-age psychiatry

chapter 73|4 pages

Rehabilitation psychiatry

part |2 pages

PART 7: MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVISION

chapter 74|2 pages

Management of psychiatric services

chapter 75|2 pages

Advice to special medical services

part |2 pages

PART 8: LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF PSYCHIATRY

chapter 76|10 pages

Forensic psychiatry

chapter 78|2 pages

Ethics and law

chapter 79|2 pages

Risk assessment

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