Table of Contents

How can you assess mental state?
Untreated dental abscess
Generalized anxiety
Sick note
Obsessive rituals but does not want medication
Having a heart attack
Stepped care for depression in primary care
Hands raw with washing
Unresponsive in the emergency department
Bipolar disorder
Psychodynamic therapy
Never felt better
Aches and pains and loss of interest
Constantly tearful
Voices comment on everything I do
I only smoked a bit of Cannibis and took a couple of Es
Unusual persecutory beliefs
Abdominal pain in general practice
A drink a day used to keep my problems at bay
Paracetemol overdose
Spider phobia
Deja vu and amnesia
Self harming, substance misuse and volatile relationships
My husband won't let me go out
Intensely fearful hallucinations
Flashbacks and nightmares
Ataxia
Unexplained medical symptoms: this pain just won't go away
Can't concentrate after his daughter died
Something's not quite right
Tricyclic antidepressant overdose
Suicidal risk assessment
Paranoia with movement disorder
My nose is too big and ugly
Can I section her to make her accept treatment
Disinhibited and behaving oddly
Transference and counter transference
Depression progressing to myoclonus and dementia
Bulimia nervosa - constipation
Fever, muscle rigidity, mental confusion
'Alien impulses' and risk to others
Feels like the room is changing shape
Unable to open my fists
Intense fatigue
Epilepsy and symptoms of psychosis
I'm impotent
I love him but I don't want sex
Treatment of heroin addiction
Exhibitionism
Rapid tranquillization
Palpitations
Thoughts of killing her baby
My wife is having an affair
A man in police custody
Stalking
An angry man
Treatment resistant depression
Treatment resistant schizophrenia
Low mood and tired all of the time
A profoundly deaf man 'hearing voices'
I am sure I am not well
Repeating the same story over and over again
Progressive step-wise cognitive deterioration
Seeing flies on the ceiling
Cognitive impairment with visual hallucinations
Paranoia - my wife is poisoning my food
Acute agitation in a medical inpatient
Woman is not eating or drinking anything
A restless postoperative patient who will not stay in bed
Parkinson's Disease
She is refusing treatment. Her decision is wrong. She must be mentally ill
Depression in a carer
My wife is an impostor
Marked tremor, getting worse
He can't sit still
Socially isolated
Killed his friend's hamster and in trouble all the time
Anorexia
Cutting on the forearms
Feelings of guilt
Intense feelings of worthlessness
Seeing things that aren't there
Separation anxiety
Soiling behind sofa
She won't say anything at school
Tics and checking behaviours
Not eating, moving or speaking
Attachment disorder
Tantrums
Gender identity disorder
Blood in the urine in a healthy girl
Child protection
He doesn't play with other children
Trouble in the classroom
Restlessness
A man with Down Syndrome is not coping
Strange behaviour in a person with Down Syndrome
Learning difficulties, behaviour problems and repetitive behaviour
Malaise and high blood pressure
Compulsive and aggressive behaviour in a man with Down syndrome

About the Author

Vol Ed: Dr Barry Wright, Consultant Child Psychiatrist & Honorary Senior Lecturer, Hull York Medical School, Lime Trees Child and Family Unit, York, UK
Author: Dr Subodh Dave, Psychiatric Unit, Derby City General Hospital, Derby, UK
Author: Dr Nisha Dogra, Senior lecturer in child and adolescent psychiatry, Greenwood Institute of Child Health, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Reviews

"While most psychiatric books describe psychiatric disorders without the context of a patient, this book adds an extra dimension by describing mental illnesses in the context of a particular patient... The list of questions encourages readers to ask even more questions, prompting them to consider a wide variety of diagnoses, assessments, and treatment options... Among the excellent topics the book covers are the basic tenets of CBT, the CAGE questionnaire, and Schneider's first rank symptoms of schizophrenia... Medical students will find this to be an outstanding book, helping them to learn how to assess not just diseases, but the patients as well."
—Doody's Core Titles