Global Primary Mental Health Care Practical Guidance for Family Doctors WONCA Family Medicine Series

This book provides up-to-date, practical information for family doctors on how to assess and manage important mental health problems presenting in primary care settings.

Patients frequently present with mental health problems in primary care settings around the world, yet family doctors consistently identify gaps in their knowledge, skills and confidence in how best to care for them. Contributors to the book are experts in primary mental health care and have consulted with family doctors around the world, to identify their main learning needs. Each of the nine core chapters will begin with a set of key points on ?how to do it? and will end with educational material in the form of clinical scenarios and multiple choice questions. This book describes core competencies for primary mental health care, clarifies how to conduct a first consultation about depression, reviews non-drug interventions for common mental health problems, discusses the management of unexplained physical symptoms, and advises on the physical health care of patients with severe mental illness. It explores the mental health needs of migrants and young people, and explains how to manage problems of frailty, multimorbidity and dementia.

This book will be of interest to family doctors and students specialising in family medicine worldwide.

1. Core competencies of family doctors in primary mental health care 2. Depression - an evidence-based first consultation 3. Non-drug interventions for common mental health problems 4. Medically unexplained symptoms 5. Physical health care of people with severe mental illness 6. Migrant mental health care 7. Mental health of young people 8. Frailty and Multimorbidity 9. Dementia

Christopher Dowrick is Professor of Primary Medical Care at the University of Liverpool, UK.