RCGP Curriculum - 13 Care of People with Mental Health Problems
This section of our curriculum guide refers to statement 13, Care of People with Mental Health Problems, produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
Mental health problems in primary care are common. The range of mental health problems encountered by a GP is large, and includes for example: adjustment reactions (normal responses to external circumstances); short- or longer-term disability associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety (which can be defined psychiatrically with diagnoses such as depression, but can also be seen as socially constructed); and schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (with a clearer biological basis, more easily defined from symptoms, but also with significant social meaning and consequences). These can coexist with each other, and also with problems related to consumption of alcohol or drugs, and with problems resulting from difficult traits and personality types.
Here we have collated key articles from our journals to help you meet the curriculum requirements in this area.
PRIMARY CARE MANAGEMENT
SKILLS AND ATTITUDES
SYMPTOMS
- Clinical Review - Anxiety disorders
- The basics - Anxiety
- Management of depression
- The basics - Depression
- Depression in later life
- Sleep disorders in adults
- The basics - Insomnia
- Depression and sleep disturbance in women
- How to ... Remove a patient from your list
- A problem shared - Handling a frequent caller
- The basics: Tired all the time - Try to establish the underlying cause
- The basics: Tired all the time - Try to establish the underlying cause
- Red flag symptoms - Tiredness
- The basics - Chronic fatigue syndrome
EATING DISORDERS
DRUGS MISUSE
OTHER DISORDERS
INVESTIGATIONS
TREATMENT
- CBT can offer options for primary care
- An introduction to mindfulness
- Viewpoint - Access to psychotherapy services
- Treating anxiety and depression using NLP
- Using antipsychotic medication
- Using antipsychotic medication
- Journals club - Antidepressant use in pregnancy
- Consultation skills - Using the BATHE technique
- Viewpoint - Good therapists are the key to successful therapy
EMERGENCY CARE
- Emergency medicine - Managing the disturbed patient
- Psychosis
- Patients who are angry or aggressive
- How to ... Remove a patient from your list
- How to ... protect yourself against attack
- A case of confusion in a patient
- Practice dilemma: Overdose patient refuses treatment
- Complications of an SSRI overdose
PREVENTION
OTHER RELATED ARTICLES
These curriculum resources are regularly updated with relevant articles from our range of healthcare publications. All articles are reviewed by GP advisers. We have set the standard lifetime of an article at two years and will aim to renew all articles within that timeframe. However, some older articles will remain in the listing if our reviewers believe there to be no significant changes to the topic covered.
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