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The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Psychiatry and Medication
Second Edition
Edited by:
- Robert Brown - Bournemouth University, UK
- Gwen Adshead - University of Reading, UK
- Alan Pollard
June 2012 | 144 pages | Learning Matters
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.
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
A good basic text
Fac of Health & Social Care Sciences, Kingston University
May 29, 2015
Excellent addition to the AMHP's knowledge base in working with service users and other mental health professionals.
Family and Community Studies, Anglia Ruskin University
June 5, 2014
Excellent book for AMHP's giving clear details of the various medication available
Education , Social Services Department
December 14, 2012
Very useful text for AMHPs in training.
Institute of Applied Social Studies, Birmingham University
October 31, 2012
A key text which has proved beneficial for AMHP's but also helpful to undergraduates and post graduate social work students in grasping the complex world of the psychiatry and medication.
The book provides a much needed understanding of medication. Hopefully the book will be updated through further editions
Department of Health and Social Care, Royal Holloway, University of London
May 22, 2012
