Somatic treatments and levels of care

Electroconvulsive therapy, neuromodulation, consultation-liaison, emergencies, rehabilitation and community mental health.

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Topic

• Community and global mental healthMental disorders are common worldwide and most people get no care; community services and…
• Consultation-liaison psychiatryPsychiatry inside the general hospital: helping medical and surgical teams with delirium…
• Levels of mental health care and involuntary admissionFrom outpatient care to day hospital and admission: the least restrictive safe setting, and the…
• Psychiatric emergencies: agitation, violence risk and the suicidal patientHow to calm an agitated patient safely, judge the risk of violence, approach the suicidal…

Technique

• Electroconvulsive therapyUnder anaesthesia and a muscle relaxant, a brief electrical stimulus causes a short, controlled…
• Neuromodulation: TMS, vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation and light therapyTreatments that change brain activity with magnetic pulses, implanted stimulators or bright…
• Psychiatric rehabilitation and recoveryHelp for people with severe mental illness to work, study, live independently and build a…

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Educational content on behavior and the clinical relationship; not a diagnostic or treatment guide and no substitute for assessment by a health professional. If you or someone near you is at risk, seek help now from an emergency service or a mental-health helpline.

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