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Module: Mental Health

Case Studies:

1. Weight loss in an immigrant girl
2. She's just putting it on
3. I just don't know how to help my wife anymore!
4. A confused family
5. I think I am going to die
6. Sonia - an emergency department presentation
7. Unusual behaviour in a middle-aged woman
8. A new family to town
9. Cate and Allen
10. But she was good as gold a few days ago!
11. But he really is a good man
12. A young man and his black dog
13. I have very important work to do, please let me do it!
14. I wish this would all be over
15. A man on a mission
16. I am not well
17. Was it a serious suicide attempt?

A man on a mission

Author(s):

Professor Cherrie Galletly,
Discipline of Psychiatry,
University of Adelaide, Australia.

Overview:

This case is concerned with psychotic disorders, their diagnosis and their acute and long-term management.
This is expected knowledge for the graduating student.

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