Physician Assistant Student's Guide to the Clinical Year: Behavioral Health (eBook)

PA-C Jill Cavalet MHS (Autor)

PA-C Maureen A. Knechtel MPAS (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
330 Seiten
Springer Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-0-8261-9538-8 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A lifesaver - not just for PA students, but for faculty and administrators trying our best to prepare them. Perfect for students to read and use on rotation."e;- James Van Rhee, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA, Program Director, Yale Physician Assistant Online ProgramThe first pocket-size resource to guide PA students through their behavioral health rotationPrepare for and thrive during your clinical rotations with the quick-access pocket guide series, The Physician Assistant Student's Guide to the Clinical Year. The Behavioral Health edition of this 7-volume series, discounted when purchased as a full set, delineates the exact duties required in this specialty.Written by an experienced PA educator, this guide details the clinical approach to common presentations such as anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders. It also provides a systems-based approach to 40 of the most frequently encountered disorders you will see in this rotation, including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and personality disorders.Distinguished by brief, bulleted content with handy tables and figures, the reference offers all pertinent psychiatric rating scales, screening tools, and diagnostic criteria needed to confirm a diagnosis. This guide also describes the urgent management techniques you will learn during the behavioral health rotation, including suicide risk assessment, management of delirium tremens, and use of restraints.Key Features:Provides a pocket-size overview of the PA behavioral health rotationDescribes common clinical presentations and mental health disordersOffers a step-by-step approach to diagnosis and treatment planningIncludes clinical pearls throughoutReflects the 2019 NCCPA PANCE blueprintIncludes two bonus digital chapters! Three guided case studies to reinforce clinical reasoning plus 25 rotation exam-style questions with remediating rationalesOther books in this series:The Physician Assistant Student's Guide to the Clinical Year:Family MedicineInternal MedicineEmergency MedicineSurgeryOB-GYNPediatrics

Inhalt

Preface

Introduction: The Approach to the Patient in Psychiatry

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1. Common Presentations in Psychiatry

COMMON PRESENTATIONS

2. Common Disease Entities in Psychiatry

ANXIETY DISORDERS

DISRUPTIVE, IMPULSE CONTROL, AND CONDUCT DISORDERS

DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS

EATING DISORDERS

GENDER DYSPHORIA

MOOD DISORDERS

NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS

NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE AND RELATED DISORDERS

PERSONALITY DISORDERS

PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS

SOMATIC SYMPTOM AND RELATED DISORDERS

SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS

TRAUMA AND STRESSOR-RELATED DISORDERS

3. Diagnostic Testing

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING STUDIES

OTHER DIAGNOSTIC TESTING

PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALES AND SCREENING TOOLS

4. Patient Education and Counseling

SELECTED PATIENT EDUCATION TOPICS PERTINENT TO PSYCHIATRY

5. Urgent Management

ACUTE DYSTONIA

AKATHISIA

DELIRIUM TREMENS

LITHIUM TOXICITY

MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS

NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME

SEROTONIN SYNDROME (SEROTONIN TOXICITY)

SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT

TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT TOXICITY

USE OF RESTRAINTS

VIOLENCE OR HOMICIDE

6. Common Procedures and Psychotherapies in Psychiatry

PROCEDURES

PSYCHOTHERAPIES

7. Common Abbreviations in Psychiatry

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Anamnese / Körperliche Untersuchung
• Schlagworte: Anxiety • behavioral health rotation • Bipolar Disorder • Case Studies • Delirium tremens • Depression • diagnostic imaging • personality disorders • physician assistant student • Restraints • Schizophrenia • Self-evaluation • Substance use disorders • Suicide risk assessment • urgent management
• ISBN-10: 0-8261-9538-5 / 0826195385
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-9538-8 / 9780826195388