WHO WHO Collaborating Center for Mental Health Research & Training, Institute of Psychiatry, London £19.95,  978-1-85315-451-5,  195pp,  Paperback,  May 2000

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British Journal of General Practice
This book is a little cracker. The style is ideal for a busy GP.

Canadian Family Physician
Topics are laid out in a logical and accessible manner for students who need essentials fast.

Primary Care Mental Health, 2003
This is more than just a book. This is an invaluable resource tool that is well designed to provide the sort of information needed by busy practitioners in primary care.

Mentioned in the National Service Framework for Mental Health as a support to strengthen primary mental health care, the WHO Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care has been prepared in the light of the experience of primary care clinicians and takes account of their specific needs. Short, user-friendly and oriented towards management it contains essential information for both General Practitioners and other staff on how to help adults suffering mental ill health, providing guidance on:

diagnosis and treatment

what to say to patients and their families

how to give them support and advice

It incorporates materials to support clinicians working collaboratively with patients, encouraging patients' active participation in treatment. A set of patient information and self-help leaflets is provided on disk. Summary cards are also included which are designed for interactive use between the clinician and patient in order to facilitate discussion. Each copy of the book also includes a second disk, which contains the text of the guidance. This enables primary care organisations to produce and use their own localised version of the Guide.

The evidence base for the recommendations on treatments is set out. However, the guidance is based on much more than the outcomes of trials of efficacy of particular treatments. It represents also the clinical wisdom of a very large group of experts whose collective experience of mental health in primary care is enormous.

Aimed primarily at primary care clinicians, this book will also be useful to others working with primary care in the mental health field - including community mental-health workers, voluntary organisations and primary care patients.

The development of this book has been supported by the NHS R&D programme and its printing and distribution by Janssen-Cilag Ltd., Pharmacia Corporation and Primary care Mental Health Education (PriMHE)

Important notice regarding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Please note that on page 35 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a research/clinical
definition which was established after the production of ICD10, and
therefore was not considered at the time. In ICD10 neurasthenia is coded as
F48.0 in Ch V Mental and Behavioural Disorders, while M.E. is coded as G93.3
in Ch VI, Diseases of the Nervous System. Subsequently, the 1994 index to
ICD10 connects fatigue syndrome to F48.0 and chronic fatigue syndrome to
G93.3.

Contents:
Foreword; Introduction; A guide to Mental Health Act assessments - England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland; General referral criteria for mental disorders; Mental disorders: Acute psychotic disorder; Adjustment disorder; Alcohol misuse; Bereavement; Bipolar disorder; Chronic fatigue and Chronic fatigue syndrome; Chronic mixed anxiety and depression; Chronic psychotic disorder; Delirium; Dementia; Depression; Dissociative (conversion) disorder; Drug use disorders; Eating disorders; Generalized anxiety; Panic disorder; Phobic disorders; Post-traumatic stress disorder; Sexual disorders (female); Sexual disorders (male); sleep problems (insomnia); Unexplained somatic complaints; Learning disability; Template chart for local resources - statutory services; Template chart for local resources - voluntary services; Resource directory; Mental health in your practice: what does your practice provide? Further reading and websites; What do different mental-health professionals do? Psychological therapies: what are they? Sources of primary mental healthcare training; Connections between ICD-10 Chapter V and ICD-10 PHC; Resources for use with patients; Resources for use by professionals; References; Acknowledgements.

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