Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of boxes, tables and figures
- List of contributors
- 1 Basic skills and competencies in liaison psychiatry
- 2 The liaison psychiatry curriculum
- 3 Classification and diagnosis
- 4 Capacity and consent
- 5 Psychological reaction to physical illness
- 6 Medically unexplained symptoms
- 7 Alcohol and substance use in the general hospital
- 8 Accident and emergency psychiatry and self-harm
- 9 Perinatal psychiatry
- 10 General medicine and its specialties
- 11 Liaison psychiatry and surgery
- 12 Neuropsychiatry for liaison psychiatrists
- 13 Psycho-oncology
- 14 Palliative care psychiatry
- 15 Sleep disorders
- 16 Weight- and eating-related issues in liaison psychiatry
- 17 Disaster management
- 18 Liaison psychiatry and older people
- 19 Paediatric liaison psychiatry
- 20 Primary care and management of long-term conditions
- 21 Occupational medicine
- 22 HIV and liaison psychiatry
- 23 Sexual dysfunction
- 24 Psychopharmacology in the medically ill
- 25 Psychological treatments in liaison psychiatry
- 26 Research, audit and rating scales
- 27 Service models
- 28 Developing liaison psychiatry services
- 29 Multiple choice questions and extended matching items
- Appendix 1 Specific competencies
- Appendix 2 Learning objectives with assessment guidance
- Index
Appendix 1 - Specific competencies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of boxes, tables and figures
- List of contributors
- 1 Basic skills and competencies in liaison psychiatry
- 2 The liaison psychiatry curriculum
- 3 Classification and diagnosis
- 4 Capacity and consent
- 5 Psychological reaction to physical illness
- 6 Medically unexplained symptoms
- 7 Alcohol and substance use in the general hospital
- 8 Accident and emergency psychiatry and self-harm
- 9 Perinatal psychiatry
- 10 General medicine and its specialties
- 11 Liaison psychiatry and surgery
- 12 Neuropsychiatry for liaison psychiatrists
- 13 Psycho-oncology
- 14 Palliative care psychiatry
- 15 Sleep disorders
- 16 Weight- and eating-related issues in liaison psychiatry
- 17 Disaster management
- 18 Liaison psychiatry and older people
- 19 Paediatric liaison psychiatry
- 20 Primary care and management of long-term conditions
- 21 Occupational medicine
- 22 HIV and liaison psychiatry
- 23 Sexual dysfunction
- 24 Psychopharmacology in the medically ill
- 25 Psychological treatments in liaison psychiatry
- 26 Research, audit and rating scales
- 27 Service models
- 28 Developing liaison psychiatry services
- 29 Multiple choice questions and extended matching items
- Appendix 1 Specific competencies
- Appendix 2 Learning objectives with assessment guidance
- Index
Summary
Competencies for all psychiatrists
As specified for all doctors, plus the following.
• Full biopsychosocial assessment of patients, across the age range, with physical health problems, physical symptoms and mental health symptoms or psychological distress, including:
• somatisation/medically unexplained symptoms
• adjustment disorder
• the interrelationship of depression and anxiety on chronic medical conditions, for example diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Mental state examination in difficult circumstances:
• intensive care units
• breaking bad news
• variable conscious level
• lack of privacy.
• Assessment of self-harm across the age range, including children
• To advise competently on the treatment of patients with chronic mental health problems while in the general hospital
• Knowledge of medical and surgical treatments and conditions that have an impact on mental state
• Anxiety, depression and psychotic states in in-patients in medical and surgical settings
• Assessment of general medical and surgical admissions
• Demonstrate knowledge of management of alcohol and substance misuse problems in medical and surgical settings
• Diagnose psychiatric symptoms in the presence of confounding severe physical illness and biological symptoms (e.g. cancer, renal disease, severe trauma)
• Implementation of appropriate management plans, including the use of basic psychological, social and environmental interventions as well as psychotropic use from the British National Formulary
• Use risk assessment to advise management plan
• Review notes and drug cards, including investigations and results
• Awareness of medical, surgical and nursing assessment and management plan in the general hospital and its interaction with mental state
• Assessment of patient in A'E
• Identification of medically unexplained symptoms
• Identification, investigation and advice on the immediate management of delirium
• Basic management of patients with eating disorders in medical and surgical settings
• Criteria for referral and signposting to other mental health services including liaison
• Management of behavioural disturbance in medical and surgical settings including:
• assessment
• environmental measures
• use of appropriate drug treatments
• management of delirium tremens
• management of other drug withdrawal states.
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- Seminars in Liaison Psychiatry , pp. 485 - 489Publisher: Royal College of PsychiatristsPrint publication year: 2012