Psychiatry

Before you begin, this unit teaches Psychiatry as a discipline, Symptoms and signs, Duration and impairment, Biopsychosocial formulation, Time course. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Mental status examination, Screening versus diagnosis, Mood and affect, Anxiety and threat, Sleep and mental health. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Differential reasoning, Developmental context, Trauma-informed inquiry, Psychosis and careful language, Risk assessment is dynamic. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Psychotherapy mechanisms, Medication literacy, Shared decision-making, Evidence and generalization, Recovery and outcomes. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Build a timeline that can change your hypothesis, Formulation as a testable map, not a persuasive story, Interpret symptom measures without surrendering judgment, Assess culture, communication, and context before interpreting behavior, Recognize acute change without premature psychiatric closure. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Read treatment evidence through population, comparison, and outcome, Connect psychotherapy techniques to hypotheses and feedback, Medication evidence: separate benefit, burden, and causal attribution, Shared decisions require understandable options and revisable plans, Safety and recovery planning without false prediction. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Four levels of description: symptom, sign, syndrome, and diagnosis, The psychiatric history as structured inquiry, The mental status examination as structured observation, Differential reasoning and why medical causes come first, What DSM and ICD criteria actually specify, and what they cannot settle. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Mood syndromes: depressive and bipolar patterns, Psychotic syndromes and the boundaries between them, Fear, obsession, and trauma: three families that look alike, Medication classes: actions, burdens, and intellectual honesty, Psychotherapy modalities and the evidence that supports them. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Symptom or coping strategy: separating what a person experiences from what they do about it, Substance use, intoxication, and withdrawal as diagnostic confounders, Neurodevelopmental presentations across the lifespan, Personality structure versus personality disorder, Trauma-informed assessment, and why a memory report is not a transcript. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Risk assessment and the real limits of prediction, What the evidence for psychological therapies does and does not support, Rehabilitation and recovery-oriented practice, Stigma, language, and iatrogenic harm, How to read a psychiatric study critically. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Formulation as clinical method: what it is, what it is not, and how it differs from a diagnosis, Levels of care and escalation: what crisis, community and inpatient care can actually do, Capacity, consent and coercion: three different ethical problems that are usually confused, Physical illness and mental state: a two-way street with a differential diagnosis attached, Sleep, pain and fatigue: three symptoms that keep exchanging places. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Medication classes conceptually: what they target, what they cannot target, and why effects lag, Comparing psychotherapies without crowning a winner, Families and carers: partnership, burden and the real limits of confidentiality, Cultural formulation: when the difference is the thing that has to be understood, Capstone: one case, three threads, and an honest account of what remains unknown. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches The architecture of a psychiatric assessment interview: what each phase is for, Question form and silence: open, closed, funnel, and the deliberate pause, Reported and observed: keeping two channels of data apart, Working through an interpreter: the interview with three people in the room, Checklists, scales and structured interviews: what they are for, and how they fail. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.

Before you begin, this unit teaches Asking about suicide plainly: euphemism, pace, and the limits of prediction, Insight: a contested concept and its clinical consequences, Distress and disorder: where the line is drawn, by whom, and what it costs, Substance use assessed without moralising, Capstone: the assessment write-up, separating findings, formulation and plan - with uncertainty documented. The lessons introduce ideas in order, then the unit quiz asks you to retrieve and apply them. You may revisit completed lessons whenever you wish.