1999 Medicine Handbook - Psychological Medicine

Psychological Medicine

Head: Professor B J Tonge
Address: Department of Psychological Medicine, Level 3, Block P, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton 3168
Telephone: (03) 9550 1477
Fax: (03) 9550 1499
Email: bruce.tonge@med.monash.edu.au

Psychiatric aspects of general medicine Consultation-liaison psychiatry; impact of psychological factors on physical illness; psycho-oncology, depression in the medically ill; psychosomatic medicine, effect of psychological factors on health outcome; mental health during pregnancy; post-natal mental health; attitudes to neo-natal death; psychological aspects of IVF; psychiatric complications of Parkinson's disease; health psychology; frontal dementias; eating disorders; movement disorders; anti-androgen therapy and cognition; effects of trauma; role of essential fatty acids in dyskinesias; clinical aspects of tardive dyskinesia; essential fatty acids in Huntington's disease.
General practice psychiatry Management of psychiatric disorders in general practice; general practitioner education; recognition and treatment of depression by GPs.
Psychotic illnesses Carer abuse by the mentally ill; treatment resistant schizophrenia and atypical neuroleptics; clinical and experimental psychoneuro-endocrinology; schizophrenia phenomenology, classification and treatment; treatment-resistant schizophrenia; community treatment and epidemiology of psychoses; neurophysiological and neuropsychological studies in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease; neuronal growth and transmitter function; first onset psychosis in adolescents; women and psychosis; substance abuse and psychosis; gender issues in schizophrenia; menstrual cycle abnormalities and schizophrenia; neurochemical changes in schizophrenia; low prevalence psychosis; schizophrenia and essential fatty acids.
Psychogeriatrics Measurement of quality of care in nursing homes; non-pharmacological management of behaviour disorders in persons with dementia; management of behaviour disorders in elderly general practice patients with dementia; outcome of depression in elderly general practice patients; kinematics in Alzheimer's Disease; psychopathology and dementia; clinical indicators in aged psychiatry; residential dementia care; assessment for dementia; service systems and dementia care.
Community psychiatry Database development; individual service plan development; service organisation; public attitudes to psychiatric disorders; general practice shared care; evaluation of deinstitutionalisation of long-stay psychiatric patients; disaster studies.
Psychoanalytic studies Psychoanalytic theory; mother-infant interaction; psychoanalytic understanding of individuals, family, community and organisations; religion and psychiatry; group and organisational behaviour and structures; history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis with children; cross-cultural factors in mother-infant interaction; Winnicott; psychoanalytic observations; applications of psychoanalysis to clinical, social and cultural fields.
Children and/or adolescents Studies in psychopathology and treatment effectiveness in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorders and school refusal, truancy and conduct disorder, post trauma stress reactions to sexual abuse, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder; epidemiology, risk and protective factors and early intervention for child mental health promotion; intellectual disability, psychopathology and mental health; autism, phenomenology and treatment; studies in psychological treatments and therapist training; postnatal depression and parent-infant interaction.
Forensic psychiatry Relationship between mental disorder and violent behaviour; stalkers and impact of stalking on its victims; mortality among those with severe mental illness; assessment and treatment of sex offenders; abuse of benzodiazepines among offender population.
General Medical education; compliance with medication; survivor psychology; ethnic psychiatry; gender issues in psychiatry; forensic psychiatry; psychopharmacology; outcome measures in therapy.