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Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry

Third edition

Sidney Bloch and Bruce Singh, eds

An essential text on clinical methods.

Opinion

“. . .undoubtedly the best text available in Australia today to undergraduate and postgraduate students . . . (unlike many texts, this can actually be read!)”
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

About this Title

'This gem of a book is an essential text . . . we have waited a long time for a good textbook on clinical methods and here it is at last!'
-Chiron

' . . . succinct and well-written . . . clinically relevant and nicely illustrated with vignettes. This text is highly recommended . . .'
-Drug and Alcohol Review

Foundations of Clinical Psychiatry is an introductory text for students of medicine and other health professions, including psychiatric nursing, psychology, social work and occupational therapy, as well as for family doctors.

Using a clear, coherent framework, it emphasises biological, psychological and social factors in assessing and treating patients, and illustrates this approach with dozens of clinical stories.

The fully revised and updated third edition brings in fourteen new contributors and a new chapter on psychiatric aspects of intellectual disability. Chapters on ethics, the effects of trauma and the mental health of indigenous people, and a section on the mental health of refugees also feature.

Shared commitment to the biopsychosocial approach by the authors, all experts in their field, makes for a remarkably consistent and useful text.

About the Author

Sidney Bloch is Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Adjunct
Professor,Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne and
Honorary Senior Psychiatrist, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne. His books include Psychiatric Ethics, An Anthology of Psychiatric Ethics and, with Bruce Singh, Understanding Troubled Minds.

Bruce Singh is Cato Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, and Clinical Director of the North Western Mental Health Program of Melbourne Health.

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978-0-522-85320-9