Modules in progress and coming next

Last updated: 14/07/2010

 

Coming next:

 

Suicides in prison

Hepatitis C and mental illness

 

Modules in development:

 

Good clinical care
  • Assessing spiritual needs
  • Practical application of neuroimaging in clinical psychiatry
  • Taking general medical history alongside psychiatric history
  • Impact of new ways of working on patient outcome in Norwich

 

Child and adolescence
  • Recognising autism and Asperger's syndrome in children with normal-range intelligence
  • Using the 3Di diagnostic interview to assess autism and Asperger's 
    syndrome
  • Management of mental health problems in children and adolescents with learning disabilities
  • Depression in children and adolescents
  • Transferring care between age-specific services
  • How to evaluate your Child and Adolescent mental health services
  • Working with the consequences of child abuse
  • Ethical and legal challenges in CAMHS - Scottish legislation
  • Gender dysphoria in children and adolescents

 

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    
  • Palliative care in dementia
  • Subcortical dementias
  • Inappropriate sexual behaviour in people with dementia
  • Elder abuse

 

General adult psychiatry
  • Morbid jealousy
  • Relapse prevention strategies in bipolar affective disorder
  • Short-term risk assessment
  • 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 early modern times
  • Comparative effectiveness of antipsychotic medication
  • Long-term outcomes of schizophrenia
  • Improving standards of care in in-patient units
  • Gay and lesbian mental health
  • DVLA and mental illness

  • Paraphilias

  • Identification of early psychosis and how to manage it

  • Sleep in affective disorders

  • Excessive daytime sleepiness

  • Parasomnias

  • Insomnia

  • Clozapine and its core use in treatment resistant schizophrenia

  • Coming off medication

  • Paranoid personality disorder

  • The mental health of military veterans

  • Pharmacological approaches to mania

  • Diagnosis and management of autism in adults

  • Sleep, consciousness and the law

  • Obstructive sleep apnoea

  • Advanced interventions for treatment refractory depression

  • Non-suicidal self harm: psychotherapeutic approaches

  • Motivational interviewing
  • Occupational psychiatry

 

Substance misuse
  • Alcohol and the brain
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Buprenorphine: its role in withdrawal and substitute prescribing
  • Safe substitute prescribing
  • GBL: what psychiatrists need to know
  • Stimulants: current epidemiology and impact on mental health
  • Stimulants: treatment approaches and organising services

 

Rehabilitation
  • The UK and international perspectives on the development of recovery-based services and practitioners 
  • Rehabilitation in psychiatry: basic concepts
  • Supported accommodation for people with severe mental illness

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Liaison psychiatry
  • Factitious disorders
  • Body dysmorphic disorder
  • Gender dysphoria
  • Psychiatric assessment for liver transplantation
  • Liaison psychiatry in the management of diabetes
  • Psychotropics in the context of heart disease

 

Forensic psychiatry
  • MAPPA and multi-agency criminal justice institutions
  • Stalking
  • Morbid Jealousy
  • Forensic aspects of learning disability
  • Short-term risk assessment

  • Paraphilias

  • Writing psychiatric reports for the civil justice system
  • Writing psychiatric reports for the criminal justice system
  • Adolescent forensic psychiatry
  • Suicides in prison: prevention and protection
  • PTSD and its management
  • Forensic violent risk assessment
  • Psychiatric defences to homicide
  • Sexual and domestic victimisation
  • Coping with a coroner's inquest: a psychiatrist's guide

 

Psychotherapy
  • Nidotherapy
  • Music therapy
  • Solution-focused brief therapy
  • Computer-delivered CBT packages
  • Introducing and delivering CBT self-help in clinical services
  • Working with the consequences of child abuse

  • Compassion-focussed therapy

 

Psychiatry of learning disabilities

 

  • DVLA and mental illness
  • Management of mental health problems in children and adolescents with learning disabilities
  • Mood disorders in adults with learning disabilities

 

Neuropsychiatry
  • Neurogenesis: implications for psychiatry
  • Huntington's Disease
  • Neuropsychiatry of movement disorders
  • Non-epileptic seizures

 

Perinatal psychiatry
  • Infanticide
  • The assessment and management of postnatal depression
  • Psychotropic prescribing in pregnancy and breastfeeding
  • Aetiology and clinical features of Puerperal Psychosis
  • Management and prevention of Puerperal Psychosis 

 

Maintaining good medical practice
  • An ethical framework for psychiatry
  • Confidentiality and the needs of carers for information
  • The new Mental Health Act
  • Values-based practice
  • MHRT and the relevant law
  • Safety in psychiatry
  • Detention in hospital
  • The Mental Health Act in the community
  • Consent to treatment
  • Safeguards
  • Impact of new ways of working on patient outcome in Norwich

 

Teaching, training, appraising and assessing
  • Personal development plans
  • Understanding and evaluating clinical trials
  • Writing information for patients and carers  
  • Problem psychiatrists and what should be covered in supervision
  • Becoming a consultant
  • Teaching communication skills to students and trainees
  • Teaching psychiatry through film
  • Learning centred teaching

 

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

 

Working with colleagues
  • Mentoring
  • Helping the addicted doctor 
  • An introduction to leadership for busy psychiatrists 
  • Interpersonal dynamics and multidisciplinary teamwork

 

IT/informatics
  • Opportunities and risks in e-therapy
Psychiatry and cultural  diversity
  • Cultural competency

  • Cultural issues in psychotherapy

  • Cultural factors in psychosis

  • Depression in migrants and ethnic minorities

     

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