Companion to Primary Care Mental Health - Tapa blanda

It is not possible to practise in family medicine without knowledge of mental health issues and their ramifications. We must know, and do, more. We need best science and practices to apply the best treatment, so that we can be comprehensive in our approach to care. We need ready access to resources that are relevant to our setting and expand our knowledge base. This book is that resource on mental health issues in primary care. It can serve as the resource companion to our relationship-based and person-centred care. We should nurture our patient relationships. We should use this book. --Richard Roberts, in the Foreword

...a much-needed, invaluable resource for physicians and other health-care professionals, worldwide, who provide primary care and family medicine. It serves as a roadmap to guide psychiatrists and other behavioural health clinicians toward effective person-centred care. The international scope of the book informs us of the vast differences in medical care throughout the world, from over-specialized medicine in high-income countries to the under resourced status of medicine in many low and middle-income countries. The Companion to Primary Care Mental Health provides welcome wisdom that will help us work toward and achieve many goals. --John M Oldham, in the Foreword

I very much welcome this initiative by Wonca, to produce this Companion to Primary Care Mental Health. The book offers a comprehensive summary of the current knowledge of mental disorders and their cure, building on contributions from many distinguished contributors. I am confident that this book will quickly become a valuable resource for family doctors and GPs, supporting them in their training and in their everyday experiences with the broad variety of mental health conditions among patients. --Paola Testori-Coggi, in the Foreword

...a much-needed, invaluable resource for physicians and other health-care professionals, worldwide, who provide primary care and family medicine. It serves as a roadmap to guide psychiatrists and other behavioural health clinicians toward effective person-centred care. The international scope of the book informs us of the vast differences in medical care throughout the world, from over-specialized medicine in high-income countries to the under resourced status of medicine in many low and middle-income countries. The Companion to Primary Care Mental Health provides welcome wisdom that will help us work toward and achieve many goals. --John M Oldham, in the Foreword

I very much welcome this initiative by Wonca, to produce this Companion to Primary Care Mental Health. The book offers a comprehensive summary of the current knowledge of mental disorders and their cure, building on contributions from many distinguished contributors. I am confident that this book will quickly become a valuable resource for family doctors and GPs, supporting them in their training and in their everyday experiences with the broad variety of mental health conditions among patients. --Paola Testori-Coggi, in the Foreword

...a much-needed, invaluable resource for physicians and other health-care professionals, worldwide, who provide primary care and family medicine. It serves as a roadmap to guide psychiatrists and other behavioural health clinicians toward effective person-centred care. The international scope of the book informs us of the vast differences in medical care throughout the world, from over-specialized medicine in high-income countries to the under resourced status of medicine in many low and middle-income countries. The Companion to Primary Care Mental Health provides welcome wisdom that will help us work toward and achieve many goals. --John M Oldham, in the Foreword

I very much welcome this initiative by Wonca, to produce this Companion to Primary Care Mental Health. The book offers a comprehensive summary of the current knowledge of mental disorders and their cure, building on contributions from many distinguished contributors. I am confident that this book will quickly become a valuable resource for family doctors and GPs, supporting them in their training and in their everyday experiences with the broad variety of mental health conditions among patients. --Paola Testori-Coggi, in the Foreword

Companion to Primary Care Mental Health is the result of a major collaboration of an international group of general practitioners, psychiatrists, policy-makers, mental health professionals and mental health advocates. This extraordinary guide provides the best available evidence for the management of patients with mental health conditions in primary care. It draws on the wisdom of a range of experts from primary and secondary care, who have translated information from the literature and their own clinical experience to apply it across the globe to everyday family practice. With the emphasis on practical application it presents family doctors and their teams with the evidence-based knowledge necessary to support the development of fully integrated systems to promote good mental health using tables and figures to illustrate complex matters. This includes the need to harness the wider determinants of health and mental health and to tackle stigma through advocacy, spirituality and ethical practice. The role of public health and the management of the many interfaces associated with providing good mental health are also covered. It includes tools for assessment, including classification and risk assessment, and the general principles required to enable a biopsychosocial approach to care. The book also considers the individual mental health conditions that family doctors and their teams are likely to encounter. As comorbidity and the management of complexity are very common in primary care mental health, these are also explored in the final chapters of the book.