The Medical Model in Mental Health
An Explanation and Evaluation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 May 2019
- ISBN 9780198807254
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages410 pages
- Size 234x156x22 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The Medical Model in Mental Health: An Explanation and Evaluation explains the medical model and how it applies in mental health, and defends psychiatry as a medical practice.
MoreLong description:
Many published books that comment on the medical model have been written by doctors, who assume that readers have the same knowledge of medicine, or by those who have attempted to discredit and attack the medical practice. Both types of book have tended to present diagnostic categories in medicine as universally scientifically valid examples of clear-cut diseases easily distinguished from each other and from health; with a fixed prognosis; and with a well-understood aetiology leading to disease-reversing treatments. These are contrasted with psychiatric diagnoses and treatments, which are described as unclear and inadequate in comparison.
The Medical Model in Mental Health: An Explanation and Evaluation explores the overlap between the usefulness of diagnostic constructs (which enable prognosis and treatment decisions) and the therapeutic effectiveness of psychiatry compared with general medicine. The book explains the medical model and how it applies in mental health, assuming little knowledge or experience of medicine, and defends psychiatry as a medical practice.
The book reads like a young man's quest to find the truth. For a nerdy psychiatrist, this book brings more anticipation and excitement than any Star Wars movie ... I am eagerly anticipating the sequel[.]
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Explanation of basic concepts of medical terminology
The role of diagnosis in medical practice and society
The nature of diagnostic constructs
The clinical picture, creating diagnostic constructs and causation
Multidisciplinary working, evidence, treatment and decision making in medicine
Criticism of psychiatric diagnosis
Criticism of psychiatric treatment
Reliability of diagnosis
Spectrums with health
Variability of clinical picture
Spectrums of conditions
Biological factors and health
Social factors and health
Clinical utility of diagnosis
Treatments in psychiatry compared to general medicine
Final conclusions
References
Bibliography
Index
