Mental Health Care: An Introduction for Health Professionals, 5th Edition

Introduction
1.1 Definitions
1.2 Stigma
1.3 A focus on caring
1.4 Caring in the health context
1.5 The prevalence of mental illness in Australia
1.6 Common mental health issues
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2.1 Biopsychosocial assessment
2.2 Approaches to assessment
2.3 Assessment tools
2.4 Diagnostic manuals
2.5 Young people and mental health assessment
2.6 Communicating with young people
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3.1 The legal and ethical context
3.2 Challenges for health professionals
3.3 Capacity and competence
3.4 Advance care agreement
3.5 Duty of care
3.6 State and territory mental health legislation
3.7 Forensic mental health Concept check
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4.1 The pervasive nature of culture and subculture
4.2 Cultural constructions of mental illness
4.3 Mental health and Indigenous Australian cultures
4.4 Mental health and rural and remote cultures
4.5 Mental health and multiculturalism
4.6 Supporting people who are members of subcultures or minority groups
4.7 Towards providing culturally appropriate mental health
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5.1 Stress reactions
5.2 Physical, emotional and behavioural reactions
5.3 Factors that influence stress reactions
5.4 Priorities when supporting people through stressful situations
5.5 Providing information
5.6 Self-care
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7.1 Depression
7.2 Anxiety
7.3 Interventions for depression and anxiety
7.4 Perinatal mental health issues
7.5 Caring for children, adolescents and young people with depression or anxiety
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8.1 Definitions
8.2 Incidence of self-harming
8.3 ‘Causes’ of self-harming behaviour
8.4 Attitudes towards self-harm
8.5 National Suicide Prevention Strategy
8.6 Assessment of risk
8.7 Caring for a person who has self-harmed
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9.1 Serious mental illness and Recovery
9.2 Experiences of serious mental illness
9.3 Interventions to support the recovery journey of people with serious mental illness
9.4 The physical health of people with serious mental illness
9.5 Carers
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10.1 substance use and substance misuse
10.2 Attitudes of health professionals
10.3 Health promotion and disease prevention
10.4 Categories of substances
10.5 Substance use disorders
10.6 Commonly misused substances
10.7 Assessment of substance use
10.8 Caring for family members
10.9 Motivation for behaviour change
10.10 The stress-vulnerability model
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11.1 Caring for older person
11.2 The impact of ageism
11.3 Assessing the older person
11.4 Depression in older people
11.5 Dementia
11.6 Delirium
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12.1 Approaches to mental health service delivery in Australia
12.2 Primary health care services
12.3 Secondary health care services
12.4 Tertiary health care services
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