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A Manual of Mental Health Care in General Practice

This manual provides an overview of mental health care in general practice, discusses some principles of psychiatric assessment and treatment, and describes the treatment of specific disorders.

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PDF printable version of A Manual of Mental Health Care in General Practice (PDF 3823 KB large file)

The same publication in smaller sections:

Cover pages (PDF 334 KB)

Contents (PDF 159 KB)

Introduction (PDF 110 KB)

1. Working with district mental health services (PDF 194 KB)
2. Mental health assessments (PDF 332 KB)
3. Suicidality and dangerousness (PDF 186 KB)
4. Transcultural mental health issues (PDF 191 KB)
5. Family and marital problems (PDF 187 KB)
6. Crisis intervention, counselling and structured problem solving (PDF 199 KB)
7. Grief counselling (PDF 201 KB)
8. Supportive psychotherapy (PDF 213 KB)
9. Behavioural treatments (PDF 194 KB)
10. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) (PDF 230 KB)
11. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) (PDF 186 KB)
12. Dynamically informed therapy (PDF 233 KB)
13. Pharmacological treatments (PDF 448 KB)
14. Depression (PDF 349 KB)
15. Anxiety disorders (PDF 197 KB)
16. The relationship between physical and mental illness (PDF 154 KB)
17. Organic mental disorders (PDF 225 KB)
18. Substance abuse (PDF 203 KB)
19. Somatoform disorders (PDF 225 KB)
20. Sexual dysfunction (PDF 316 KB)
21. Trauma, memory and dissociation (PDF 175 KB)
22. Psychotic disorders (PDF 278 KB)
23. Personality disorders (PDF 196 KB)
24. Child and adolescent mental health (PDF 551 KB large file)
25. Doctors' mental health (PDF 152 KB)
26. Consumer and carer perspective (PDF 190 KB)

Further information (PDF 128 KB)

Appendices (PDF 332 KB)

Index (PDF 286 KB)

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Page last reviewed: 23 June 2009


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