GP Mental Health Skills Masterclass
Mental Health Skills for GPs
✓ Enhance your ability to diagnose and treat mental disorders efficiently
✓ Interactive Case Based Discussions to consolidate your knowledge
✓ Earn 8 CPD hours
✓ Online training material for psychiatric interviewing
Learning Objectives
» Perform risk assessments and outline key steps in management of risk in primary care.
» Identify and recognise common presentations of mental illness in primary care.
» Identify presentations that should be referred for specialist care.
» Reproduce diagnostic criteria for depression, psychosis, anxiety and substance use disorders.
» Formulate patient presentations in a bio-psychosocial model.
» Distinguish between Axis I and Axis II (personality disorders).
» Write a mental health care plan.
» Implement a devised mental health care plan.
» Discuss choice of appropriate medication for common mental disorders.
» Explain common mental illnesses to families and carers.