Mental healthcare matters in primary care

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This book shows how to integrate quality improvements into everyday work. It outlines how learning more about mental health and reviewing current practice can be incorporated into personal development or practice learning plans. Abstract: This book shows how to integrate quality improvements into everyday work. It outlines how learning more about mental health and reviewing current practice can be incorporated into personal development or practice learning plans Content: Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Preface About the authors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Clinical governance and mental healthcare Components of clinical governance The challenges to delivering clinical governance Reflection exercise References 2 Depression How common is depression? The symptoms and signs of depression Course of the illness Suicide and self-harm Recommendations for psychiatric referral Treatment of depressive disorders Screening tools for depression -- some examples Postnatal depression Reflection exercises References 3 Generalised anxiety disorderWhat is generalised anxiety disorder? How common is generalised anxiety disorder? Exclude a physical or psychiatric cause Treating generalised anxiety disorder Reflection exercises References 4 Obsessive-compulsive disorder What is obsessive-compulsive disorder? Who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder? Treatment -- the evidence Reflection exercise References 5 Stress What is stress? Effects of stress Treatment and management of stress Post-traumatic stress disorder Treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder Reflection exercises Providing a co-ordinated multidisciplinary local serviceTreatment of dementia Reflection exercise References 8 Draw up and apply your personal development plan Worked examples Reflection and planning exercise 9 Draw up your practice personal and professional development plan Worked example Reflection and planning exercise Appendix Support groups, information and resources, and self-help literature about mental healthcare Support groups, information and resources Further reading Index