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Mood Disorders Webinars
A Family Medicine Approach to Mood Disorders
Dr Madeleine Muller
Family Physician CMH & Senior Lecturer WSU
June 2024
In this presentation, Dr Muller covers the affective neuroscience that underpins depressive and anxiety disorders and covers practical approaches to the diagnoses and management of depressive and anxiety disorders in the clinic / CHC or district hospital setting in the public sector of South Africa.
Including an introduction to tools we can use to screen suicidal risk and diagnose and classify depression and anxiety.
PSYCHOTIC DISORDER TUTORIALS
TOP TUT: Psychosis: A broad differential
This tutorial focuses on the key symptoms of psychosis and covers a brief differential, as will be found in the DSM V, of patients presenting with psychosis.
TOP TUT: Schizophrenia: making a diagnosis
This tutorial outlines the development of schizophrenia, aspects to consider when making a diagnosis and the DSM V criteria
TOP TUT: Antipsychotic Meds: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This tutorial covers the different medications we have available to treat chronic psychotic disorders and describes the various adverse events we need to be aware of.
TOP TUT: Schizophrenia: Managing acute psychosis
This tutorial covers the management of a patient with a possible chronic psychotic disorder presenting with an acute psychosis.
TOP TUT: Schizophrenia: Chronic Disease management
This tutorial covers the initiation and management of medical treatment for schizophrenia.
Mental Health Tools
Mental Health Handy Reference Tool Nov 22.pdfCMH Mental Health Handy reference Tools: Include the PHQ-2 and PHQ-9, the dementia screening tool and management of acutely psychotic patient
PHQ-9 Depression Screening tool Xhosa.pdfPHQ-2 and PHQ-9 Screening Tool with isiXhosa Translation
To use with patients
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