Alan Pollard & Robert Brown 
The Approved Mental Health Professional′s Guide to Psychiatry and Medication [EPUB ebook] 

This book is essential reading for all Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) and those students and practitioners on mental health Post-Qualifying awards. It covers the core competencies of the AMHP and how the use of medication fits within the roles of the mental health professional. Fully updated to include aspects of the recently amended Mental Health Act 1983, this guide shows how the law is applied to compulsory administration of medication, the law relating to consent to treatment and the relevance to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Table of Content

The importance of psychiatry and medication for AMHPs

Psychiatrists: training and how they practise

An overview of psychiatry and classification

Psychotic disorders

Neurotic disorders, substance abuse and personality disorders

Forensic psychiatry

Psychiatry of old age

Psychiatry and risk assessment

Patients as parents

Child and adolescent psychiatry

Treatment issues in psychiatry

Classification of medication in psychiatry

Anti-depressants and mood stabilisers

Anti-psychotics

Anxiolytics, sedative/hypnotics, substance abuse

Older adults, children, unlicensed drugs

The law and psychiatric treatment

Treatment under the Mental Health Act

About the author

Gwen Adshead is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Broadmoor Hospital and lectures at St George’s Hospital in London.