Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry

The Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry offers a comprehensive and pragmatic guide to the UK's inpatient mental health care system.

List of contents

• Section 1: the context of acute inpatient psychiatric care


• 1: Historical and conceptual aspects


• 2: Mental health legislation


• 3: International perspectives on inpatient mental health care


• 4: The design and function of inpatient wards


• 5: The context of inpatient mental health care in England


• Section 2: team leadership and multidisciplinary work


• 6: Multidisciplinary work, multidisciplinary team


• 7: Modern matron, ward manager, consultant nurse


• 8: Occupational therapy: values, evidence, and interventions


• 9: The interface with community services


• Section 3: medical aspects


• 10: Initial assessment, ward rounds, the discharge process


• 11: Physical health care


• 12: Adverse reactions to medication


• 13: Substance misuse disorders on the psychiatric ward


• 14: Electroconvulsive therapy


• 15: Prevention and management of violence and aggression


• 16: Assessment and management of vulnerable patients


• 17: People with personality disorders and developmental conditions on an inpatient ward


• 18: Autoimmune- related psychosis


• 19: Rehabilitation wards


• 20: Clinical pharmacy: safe prescribing and monitoring


• Section 4: nursing aspects


• 21: Daily ward process in inpatient mental health care


• 22: Nursing observations of patient on inpatient wards


• 23: Assessment and management of the risk of suicide


• 24: Implementation of the Safewards model on inpatient wards


• 25: Post-incident debriefing, team formulation and staff support


• 26: Working with relatives and friends


• 27: Accreditation of inpatient mental health services


• Section 5: psychological aspects


• 28: Psychological treatment on the acute ward


• 29: Interventions for specific conditions


• Section 6: diversity, advocacy, staffing issues


• 30: Diversity in inpatient care


• 31: Advocacy


• 32: Staff burnout and staff turnover on inpatient wards


• Section 7: specialist services across the life span


• 33: Acute inpatient care for children and adolescents


• 34: Acute inpatient care in older adults


• 35: Psychiatric intensive care


• 36: Eating disorders

About the author

Alvaro Barrera is a Consultant Psychiatrist, at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford, an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He completed a MSc in neurobiology and behavioural science and subsequently completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he also trained in neuropsychiatry. His research interests comprise transforming inpatient care using digital technology and organisational approaches, the psychopathology and cognitive neuroscience of severe mental illness, as well as empathy in clinical psychiatry.

Caroline Attard is currently the Director of Quality Improvement working in Berkshire Health Foundation Trust in the UK. Her career and expertise spans over 20 years working in her native country Malta and in the United Kingdom. She specialises in in-patient mental health nursing and Quality Improvement. She has worked as an in-patient mental health Nurse Consultant which consisted of education, clinical leadership, research and service improvement. Caroline has taught on under and post graduate level mental health nursing programmes at various universities. She has also developed and facilitated various in-house training programmes on a variety of subjects including suicide prevention, risk training and psycho social interventions. She has developed a preceptorship programme for newly qualified mental health. nurses which focuses on resilience and uses methods such as action learning sets and quality improvement methodology

Rob Chaplin has recently retired from the National Health Service where he worked in an inpatient and formerly community mental health care as a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry. He is currently working as Clinical Lead for Accreditation at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Centre for Quality Improvement. He worked in Oxford, UK for the last 16 years at the Warneford and Littlemore Hospitals and has co authored more than 60 peer reviewed publications in the field of mental health service research. He has trained doctors at all stages of psychiatric training.

Summary

Inpatient mental health care is an essential part of community-based mental health care in the UK. Patients admitted to acute mental health wards are often experiencing high levels of distress and acute mental illness and need to be assessed, managed, and treated by a wide team of mental health care professionals. Inpatient care is often a traumatic experience for patients and their relatives which can define their relationship with mental health care services. Reforming inpatient psychiatry is a priority for both patients and staff, yet there are few reference texts on this psychiatric specialty.

The Oxford Textbook of Inpatient Psychiatry bridges this gap by offering a comprehensive and pragmatic guide to the UK's inpatient mental health care system today. Written and edited by a multidisciplinary team, this innovative resource discusses the real-life experiences and challenges of a wide range of professionals working on acute mental health wards. Organized into 8 sections this resource covers nursing, team leadership, multidisciplinary work, psychology, and medical aspects. Individual chapters address key topics such as the management of children and adolescents, and contain information on up-to-date research and best practice.

Focusing on the dignity and autonomy of patients, this unique resource offers a model for clinical and organizational practice both at a national and international level.

Product details

• Authors: Alvaro (Consultant Psychiatrist Barrera
• Assisted by: Caroline Attard (Editor), Caroline (Consultant Nurse and Head of Quality improvement programme Attard (Editor), Alvaro Barrera (Editor), Alvaro (Consultant Psychiatrist Barrera (Editor), Rob Chaplin (Editor), Rob (Clinical Lead for Accreditation at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Centre for Quality Improvement Chaplin (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2019
• EAN: 9780198794257
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879425-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine