Psychiatric clinical skills

Psychiatric Clinical Skills is a practical guide to engaging and assessing people who have mental health problems. Written by a team of experienced clinicians, it focuses on "what to ask" and "how to ask" and covers a wide spectrum of clinical problems and settings. It includes a chapter written from the perspective of people who live with mental health problems.

As well as covering the full range of mental health disorders, the guide includes informaition about:

• culture competence
• assessment of children, adolescents and older adults
• assessment of families
• use of standardized rating scales
• documentation.

Each chapter includes easy-to-use features such as clinical vignettes, chapter overviews and key-point summaries.