My Gp, My Mental Healthcare Provider: A Tertiary-primary Care Collaboration For Community Mental Healthcare

My Gp, My Mental Healthcare Provider: A Tertiary-primary Care Collaboration For Community Mental Healthcare
Author: Yen-li Goh
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2020-06-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9813273844

This book documents the journey of the Mental Health-General Practitioner (MH-GP) Partnership Programme in Singapore's Institute of Mental Health since its inception in 2003 and how it has developed over the years as a model of successful tertiary-primary care partnership in mental health.The programme provides an Asian perspective and showcases a successful collaboration of an integrated network between tertiary and primary care practitioners in the management of individuals with chronic major psychiatric disorders as well as individuals with minor psychiatric disorders.It can serve as a reference guide for agencies, both public and private in Singapore as well as agencies in the region who plans to develop similar partnerships between tertiary and primary care. This book may interest audiences from various fields, medical, allied health, administration and students in healthcare and education.

My Gp, My Mental Healthcare Provider

My Gp, My Mental Healthcare Provider
Author: Goh Yen-Li
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789813273825

Vision / Goh Yen-Li -- Mental Health - GP Partnership Programme (MH-GPPP) : Process, Planning and Implementation / Gina Teo -- Case Management / Junie Seah and Margaret Hendriks -- Managing GP Engagement : Strategies and Lessons Learnt / Alvin Lum -- GP Training and Education in Mental Health / Chiam Peak Chiang, Alvin Lum, and Nirhana Japar -- Research : An Explorative Journey Ahead / Alvin Lum -- GP Perspectives : Managing Patients with Mental Illness in the Community / Mark Yap, Kwek Thiam Soo, Grace Cheng, Rodney Lim, and Gina Teo -- MH-GP Partnership Programme and Beyond : Working with the Community to Sustain Mental Healthcare / Wei Ker-Chiah, Jayaramam Hariram, Jared Ng and Chan Mei Chern.

Primary Care Mental Health

Primary Care Mental Health
Author: Linda Gask
Publisher: RCPsych Publications
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2009-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781904671770

In this book, internationally respected authors provide a conceptual background and dispense practical advice on delivering mental health services for the clinician. They discuss ways of improving joint working between primary and secondary care, as well as issues affecting the professional development of all practitioners within primary care teams.

Overcoming Anxiety Without Fighting It

Overcoming Anxiety Without Fighting It
Author: Tim Cantopher
Publisher: Sheldon Press
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1847094996

YOU DON'T HAVE TO STRUGGLE WITH ANXIETY. WHETHER YOU DEVELOPED IT RECENTLY, OR YOU'VE BEEN LIVING WITH IT FOR YEARS, YOUR ANXIETY CAN BE TREATED. Expert psychiatrist and bestselling author Dr Tim Cantopher has helped hundreds of people just like you, and in Overcoming Anxiety Without Fighting It, he gives you tried and proven strategies for escaping the fear that stalks you. Discover a series of simple, manageable lifestyle skills and strategies that will make an immediate difference to your life, as well as practical suggestions for longer-term changes, including advice on how, when, and what sort of professional help to seek. At the heart of this warm, supportive and expert book are the author's decades of experience with people just like you, and with this experience comes a message of hope, and reassurance. Stick with the changes you are going to make, and seek the support you need, and your life will no longer be dominated by fear. 'I'm speaking to you now - if you are going to gain the relief from your symptoms which I hope for you, you'll need to promise me and yourself one thing from the start: that you'll try your hardest not to judge yourself and how well or badly you're doing at getting better.' - Dr Tim Cantopher

Managing People in the New Normal

Managing People in the New Normal
Author: Richie Perera
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2022-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1982286555

About the Book The world of work has changed dramatically. We now live in a world where the use of terms such as “hybrid working” and the “new normal” have become the norm, words never uttered in the world of work before the pandemic. Technology such as Zoom and Teams which now play a crucial and integral part in the way we work was unheard of. The new normal, whatever it is and whatever it will become, brings with it a host of new challenges for organisations and managers. These challenges are brand new and unique. They have not been explored or studied to establish best practices for the new normal we now work and live in. It has left organisations and managers disorientated. Whether you are a shareholder, a business owner, a CEO, a manager or the managed, this book outlines new thoughts and principles for managing people in the new normal based on mental health and wellbeing. New thought and principles that can leverage the human element to shift the thinking and behaviour of organisations. It presents an ideology based on human connection and wellbeing with the power to slingshot the working world into a far better and brighter future If you work, you must read!

Doctors as Patients

Doctors as Patients
Author: Petra Jones
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1315344556

Doctors, as strong, clever, resourceful professionals, are heir to human frailty and illness, like anyone else. This book is about diagnosable, label-able mental illness such as eating disorders, affective disorders and, sometimes, psychosis. More than that, it is a book about doctors, many fully-functioning, practising doctors, who suffer from these illnesses, and the unique insights and problems that arise when the doctor is the patient, especially when questions of insight and judgement are blurred.

Mindful Mamma

Mindful Mamma
Author: Sophie Fletcher
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1473571529

Feel calm and confident throughout your baby’s first year Mindful Mamma is a reassuring and practical guide to help you to navigate the life-changing first year of motherhood. Using simple mindfulness and hypnosis techniques alongside MP3 tracks, you’ll learn to: · Create moments of calm whenever you need it – even at 4am with a restless baby · Tackle challenges, such as fatigue and anxiety, and build mental resilience · Connect with your baby and tune in to their world Whether this is your first or fourth baby, Mindful Mamma is your essential toolkit to manage the physical, emotional and joyful chaos of motherhood.

Case Studies for Complementary Therapists

Case Studies for Complementary Therapists
Author: Kelly Galvin
Publisher: Elsevier Australia
Total Pages: 735
Release: 2010-12-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0729539555

An invaluable resource for complementary therapists, health practitioners, students and teachers Case Studies for Complementary Therapists: a collaborative approach provides curriculum-level support for those working to develop the complementary potential between alternative medicines and conventional western medicine. This useful complementary medicine textbook provides insight into the initial complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) consultation process. It offers possible treatment and collaborative referral options for individual cases, rather than dictating diagnostic analysis or treatment protocols for specific health conditions. Through case studies on conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, the book provides an important framework for clinicians and students, within which they can analyse and classify information gathered during consultation.' The book will also help readers develop effective and appropriate treatment programs within the time constraints of a busy clinic. Case Studies for Complementary Therapists provides suggestions for questions to ask at consultation time; helping readers collect the necessary information to develop a working diagnosis and treatment protocol. Complementary medicine ethics and law Complementary practitioners are often uncertain about the legal and ethical boundaries in diagnosis and case management. Case Studies for Complementary Therapists: a collaborative approach will help complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and students: .'recognise medical situations requiring referral .'understand their role in collaborative case management .'integrate complementary and alternative medicine modalities in treatment programs with confidence

Another Twinkle in the Eye

Another Twinkle in the Eye
Author: Elaine Hanzak
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-09-06
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1315342820

Another Twinkle in the Eye is an essential guide for anyone contemplating another pregnancy after perinatal mental illness. The decision to bring a child into the world is rarely one that is taken lightly. When a previous pregnancy and early parenthood has resulted in poor maternal and/or paternal perinatal mental health, making a conscious decision to have another baby can be even more challenging. This unique book provides facts, resources, and discussion points to support people in making informed and comfortable decisions. It is also an essential resource for health professionals who support or are involved in the decision-making process of couples planning another pregnancy. The author combines personal experience with real-life stories from other parents. Also included are contributions from healthcare professionals. The book offers comprehensive coverage across five key areas: Reflection on the previous pregnancy, miscarriage or stillbirth, Decisions to be made when considering another pregnancy, Ways to plan for and to have a healthier experience, The role of healthcare professionals and facilities, and Self-help and complementary techniques for good mental health in the perinatal period.

Tending To My Thoughts

Tending To My Thoughts
Author: Sharon Hastings
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2024-01-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1789744555

Tending to My Thoughts continues the story of Sharon Hastings, a medical doctor and Christian living with severe mental illness. Her personal experience of recovery offers a starting point to help readers think through what recovery could look like for them or their loved ones. Peppered with personal anecdotes, shot through with medical knowledge and chock-full of helpful explanation, this book inspires hope and provides evidence that life with mental illness can improve. Sharon Hastings writes to encourage those who walk alongside people who are suffering, as well as to equip individual Christians and churches to effectively support those in recovery, particularly from severe mental illness.