The Study Guide to Preventive Medical Care in Psychiatry: A Case Approach is a supplementary text intended to help readers synthesize and understand material in the source book. This volume does not offer outlines or additional figures and is not meant to be used as a stand-alone text. Rather, the study guide highlights the most important topics with practice questions that are not available in the source book.
Each chapter of this study guide corresponds to the chapter of the same number in Preventive Medical Care in Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, allowing readers to test their knowledge as they work through the source book. After each question, readers will find thorough explanations supported by references to pages and figures in the source book.
In encountering these clinical vignettes, the reader should gain a greater understanding of preventive medicine in psychiatric care. The questions are designed to illustrate patient management, common comorbidities to psychiatric illness, and treatment guidelines. Addressing medical illnesses often leads to an enhanced quality of life that facilitates better psychiatric care. As health reform continues to move toward models of integrated medical and mental care, it is increasingly important that mental health clinicians learn to combine medical and psychiatric approaches. The purpose of this study guide is to equip mental health clinicians and trainees with the foundations to adapt to this new era in health care.