Non-Medication Treatment Options for Depression — CASC Station 1.3 (Communication)
MRCPsych CASC Communication station: Non-Medication Treatment Options for Depression. You are seeing Mr. McKean, a 54-year-old retired haematologist who…
Category: Communication · Chapter 1: Essential Skills & Scenarios
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You are seeing Mr. McKean, a 54-year-old retired haematologist who has been struggling with depressive symptoms. He was previously started on Sertraline…
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- 3.8 Reassuring an Anxious Patient with Normal Cognitive Testing — Memory Concerns Without Dementia
- 3.9 Acute Psychosis and DVLA — Addressing Driving Concerns After a Psychotic Episode
- 3.12 Lewy Body Dementia — Devising a Management Plan with the Grandson Following New Behavioural Changes
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Other stations in Chapter 1
- 1.2 Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Assessment and Engagement in EUPD
- 1.4 Treatment Discussion for Recurrent Depressive Disorder
- 1.5 Cerebellar Examination in Alcohol-Related Ataxia
- 1.6 CBTp for First-Episode Psychosis
- 1.7 Discharge Planning for Violent Elderly Patient
- 1.8 Risk Assessment & Management of Paranoia in a Prisoner
- 1.9 Mental State Examination for Thought & Perception Disturbance
- 1.10 Mental State Examination for Postnatal Psychopathology
- 1.11 MSE - Psychotic Depression with Cotard's Delusion
- 1.12 Mental State Examination for Hypomania
- 1.13 Safeguarding Concerns in Learning Disability
- 1.14 Collateral History - Depression/Dementia
- 1.15 Collateral History - Suspected ADHD
- 1.16 Cognitive Exam - Global Atrophy with Frontal Signs
- 1.17 Cognitive Exam - Full MMSE Assessment
- 1.18 Cognitive Exam - Parietal Lobe Assessment
- 1.19 Cognitive Exam - Temporal Lobe Assessment