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.