Management for Psychiatrists

This popular title provides a guide to the
complex world of management in psychiatric practice. The editors have brought
together an impressive group of knowledgeable and well-known authors who write
from their direct and current experience in the ever-changing National Health
Service.

Topics covered include the various skills
necessary for running services, such as management of finances, resources and
personnel issues, and topics central to today's changing scene, such as
revalidation, service users' expectations and clinical governance. The book
concludes with a section on personal development, addressing such issues as
presentation skills, stress management, mentoring, managing committees and dealing with the media.

This book is essential
reading for specialist trainees and early career
psychiatrists, and is also relevant to consultants, other mental health
professionals and clinicians involved in the planning and running of mental
health services.

• Completely updated and enlarged.
• A sound practical guide.
• Written by authors with direct, current experience.