Psychiatry in Practice Education, Experience, and Expertise

Psychiatry in Practice: Education, Experience, and Expertise provides detailed advice and useful tips for early career psychiatrists, and all others who wish to enhance their practical psychiatry skills. Each chapter is written by prominent early career psychiatrists from around the world, offering relevant and timely advice to those who are newly qualified, as well as a global perspective on the practical issues faced today. Covering a variety of topics from 'Psychiatric Emergencies' to 'Ethics and clinical practice in psychiatry', chapters include vignettes of scenarios that may be encountered, making this book pertinent and easily applicable to many early career situations. Skills related to personal management and managing resources are often not taught during training but are key to establishing a career in psychiatry - this book will help the new clinician to develop professionally. The emphasis on practicality ensures psychiatrists are prepared for the needs of the modern health service and society at large, and ensures patients across the world experience the best treatment available.

1 - Role and responsibilities of psychiatrists
2 - How to develop leadership skills
3 - Evaluating mental health care systems by studying pathways to care
4 - Managing self: time, priorities and well-being
5 - Managing financial resources in healthcare settings
6 - Managing difficult people in the workplace
7 - Managing media
8 - Mentoring and Career Coaching
9 - How to organise and manage scientific meetings
10 - Raising funds for research and educational activities
11 - Medical mobility: how to gain further skills
12 - Building an academic career in psychiatry
13 - Curriculum development for psychiatric training
14 - Social media and e-learning for professional development in psychiatry
15 - The philosophical basis of psychiatry
16 - How to build a strong therapeutic alliance in mental health care: things to do, things to avoid
17 - Psychiatric Emergencies
18 - Building ties in the Community for Patients with mental illness
19 - Practical strategies to fight stigma in mental health
20 - Working with families of patients with mental illness
21 - Informed consent in research settings
22 - Ethics and clinical practice in psychiatry
23 - Mental health care in the transition from child and adolescent to adult psychiatry: What a psychiatrist cannot ignore
24 - How to responsibly prescribe psychotropics
25 - Dealing with aggressive and violent behaviours in psychiatric settings
26 - Practical skills in old age psychiatry
27 - Management of Intellectual Disability
28 - Managing Child Psychiatry
29 - Liaison Psychiatry - is it possible?
30 - Presentation and treatment of mental disorders in migrants
31 - Management of mental disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period
32 - Involuntary hospitalizations in psychiatry. What do and what to avoid
33 - Sexual Variation and Mental Health
34 - Translational Neuroimaging
35 - Psychotherapy in Practice

Andrea Fiorillo, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN, Italy Umberto Volpe MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Naples SUN, Italy Dinesh Bhugra, PhD, MA, MSc, MBBS, FRCPsych, MPhil, LMSSA, is Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Section of Cultural Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK