Modules in progress and coming next

Last updated: 05/11/2008

 

Coming soon:

 

The assessment of personality. By Professor Peter Tyrer and Dr Caroline Methuen

 

Modules in progress:

 

Good clinical care
  • Medication adherence
  • Assessing spiritual needs
  • Helping clinicians support carers
  • Practical application of neuroimaging in clinical psychiatry
  • Polypharmacy
  • Taking general medical history alongside psychiatric history
  • Complementary medicines and psychiatry

 

Child and adolescence
  • Interviewing techniques for assessing eating disorders
  • Ethical and legal challenges within children's mental health
  • Asperger's syndrome
  • Recognising autism and Asperger's syndrome in children with normal-range intelligence
  • Using the 3Di diagnostic interview to assess autism and Asperger's 
    syndrome
  • Behavioural problems in the under fives
  • Substance misuse in the adolescent
  • Assessment of mental health of children and adolescents with learning disabilities 
  • Management of mental health problems in children and adolescents with learning disabilities
  • Self-harm in under 18 year olds
  • Depression in under 18 year olds
  • Adolescent forensic psychiatry
  • Behavioural phenotypes in children with learning disabilities
  • Transferring care between age-specific services
  • Prescription and monitoring of stimulants for children with ADHD
  • Psychopharmacology in children and adolescents
  • How to evaluate your Child and Adolescent mental health services

 

Old age psychiatry
  • Drugs in Alzheimer's dementia 
  • The optimal pharmacological treatment for advanced dementia
  • Improving quality of care for people with dementia
  • DVLA and mental illness
  • Assistive technology in dementia care
  • Treating depression in older people  

 

General adult psychiatry
  • Understanding eating disorders
  • Rapid tranquilisation of the acutely psychotic patient
  • Morbid jealousy
  • Relapse prevention strategies in bipolar affective disorder
  • Assessment and management of OCD
  • Clinical risk assessment
  • Clinical risk management 
  • Assessment of personality 
  • Atypical antipsychotic medication and the metabolic syndrome
  • Parental mental health – keeping the family in mind
  • The prescription of electroconvulsive therapy
  • The regulation of madness from medieval times to the early twentieth century 
  • Comparative effectiveness of antipsychotic medication
  • Long-term outcomes of schizophrenia
  • Improving standards of care in in-patient units
  • Gay and lesbian mental health
  • Managing medication for people with schizophrenia when treatment is failing 

  • DVLA and mental illness

  • Paraphilias

  • Management of insomnia with non-pharmacological approaches

  • Identification of early psychosis and how to manage it

  • Assessing physical evidence of torture

  • The role of psychosurgery in the 21st century

  • How to recruit patients to trial

  • Risk assessment and management of violence in general adult psychiatry

  • Getting psychiatric patients into employment

  • Sleep in affective disorders

  • Excessive daytime sleepiness

  • Parasomnias

  • Insomnia

 

Substance misuse
  • Managing pregnant substance misusers
  • Alcohol and the brain
  • Substance misuse in the adolescent
  • Safe substitute prescribing
  • Basics of motivational interviewing

 

Rehabilitation
  • The UK and international perspectives on the development of recovery-based services and practitioners 
  • The care programme approach 
  • Cognitive rehabilitation

  • Rehabilitation in psychiatry: basic concepts

  • Getting psychiatric patients into employment

  • Supported accommodation for people with severe mental illness

     

Liaison psychiatry
  • Factitious disorders
  • Body dysmorphic disorder
  • Adverse skin reactions to psychiatric drugs 
  • Psychiatric management of gender dysphoria
  • Psychiatric assessment for liver transplantation
  • Somatisation in the neurology clinic
  • Psychiatry of transplantation
  • Psychiatric aspects of terminal care
  • Psychiatric aspects of HIV
  • The role of liaison psychiatry in cancer treatment
  • The role of liaison psychiatry in childhood cancer

 

Forensic psychiatry
  • MAPPA and multi-agency criminal justice institutions
  • Court work
  • Legal aspects of psychiatry
  • Stalking
  • Supervising restricted patients
  • Forensic aspects of learning disability
  • Clinical risk assessment 

  • Clinical risk management

  • Writing psychiatric reports for the civil justice system
  • Writing psychiatric reports for the criminal justice system
  • Adolescent forensic psychiatry
  • Suicide in prison: prevention and protection
  • The assessment of PTSD

 

Psychotherapy
  • Nidotherapy
  • Music therapy
  • Solution-focused brief therapy
  • Psychotherapy for survivors of sexual abuse
  • The role of CBT in specific psychiatric diagnoses
  • Introduction to cognitive analytic therapy

 

Psychiatry of learning disabilities

 

  • DVLA and mental illness
  • Challenging behaviour
  • Assessment of mental health of children and adolescents with learning disabilities 
  • Management of mental health problems in children and adolescents with learning disabilities
  • Behavioural phenotypes in children with learning disabilities

  • Mood disorders in adults with learning disabilities

 

Neuropsychiatry
  • Neuronal repair mechanisms
  • Neurogenesis implications for psychiatry
  • Huntington's Disease
  • Neuropsychiatry of movement disorders

 

Perinatal psychiatry
  • Managing pregnant substance misusers
  • Infanticide
  • The assessment and management of postnatal depression

 

Maintaining good medical practice
  • Advance directives in the UK
  • New BAP guidelines on depression
  • Private practice for psychiatrists – practical, financial, legal and ethical issues
  • An ethical framework for psychiatry
  • Confidentiality and the needs of carers for information
  • The new Mental Health Act
  • Values-based practice
  • ECGs for psychiatrists
  • MHRT and the relevant law

 

Teaching, training, appraising and assessing
  • Personal development plans
  • Understanding and evaluating clinical trials
  • Writing information for patients and carers
  • Running a workshop
  • Educational assessment methods    
  • Appraising papers critically
  • Being an appraiser
  • Work-based assessments
  • Problem psychiatrists and what should be covered in supervision

 

Relationships with patients
  • Professional ethics and sexual boundary violations
  • Dealing with complaints and how to learn from them

 

Working with colleagues
  • Mentoring
  • Helping the addicted doctor 

 

IT/informatics
  • Computer basics – Guide to using the PDA
  • Opportunities and risks in e-therapy
  • Computers, the Internet and the WWW: an introduction for e-therapists

Psychiatry and cultural  diversity
  • Diversity training for psychiatrists
  • Mental health of refugees and asylum seekers

  • Cultural competency

  • Cultural issues in psychotherapy

  • Cultural factors in psychosis

     

Probity
  • Probity

 

Health
  • Managing stress and avoiding burnout
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