• Bodies by Jed Mercurio , reviewed by Katie Law (May 2002)

• Systematic Review of Brief Psychological Therapies in Primary Healthcare
  A. Hemmings PhD © 1999 Counselling in Primary Care Trust

• Calipso Self Help Book: Overcoming Depression
  Dr Chris Williams
  contact for more details. See also the Calipso CD-ROMs

• WHO Guide to Mental Health in Primary Care
  Adapted for the UK from the World Health Organisation's Diagnostic and Management Guidelines for Mental Disorders in Primary Care (ICD- 10-PHC Chapter V).

• North Wales Doctor Support Service
  A confidential, direct access counselling service at a variety of locations off NHS premises, with a range of post-graduate educational activities designed to pre-empt and avert personal crises. It is sponsored by, but physically separate from the North Wales Health Authority.

• Management of Mental Disorders
  edited by Gavin Andrews and Rachel Jenkins
  World Health Organisation Collaborating Centres in Mental Health, Sydney, Australia and London, UK, 1999.
  Price: £30 inclusive of p&p.
  Only available from Management of Mental Disorders, PO Box 55, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU12 4FP
  Tel: 01252 322252. Fax: 01252 322315
  
  Low price (for what it is) directly linked to lack of availability via bookshops etc. This is the single, most comprehensive, practical, readable, accessible and good-value-for-money text, written for community mental health workers, including GPs, working in community settings. Covers enormous range of topics. It has lots of practical resources that can be photocopied, some of which I looted (with permission) for the resource leaflet section of WHO Guide. It is true that it is a long book (2 volumes) and it is thus for the most interested/dedicated end of the primary care spectrum. Non-the-less for those at that end of the spectrum or those involved in teaching or just those who want to look something up, it is very good value indeed and easy to find your way around. Some GPs do find the WHO Guide too simplistic, so this will appeal to them. Good on managing anxiety and depression too, and early psychosis, and £30 compares well to other resources recommended. As you see, I am an enthusiast. Reviewed by

• Mental Health Foundation's `Strategies for Living - A report of user-led research into people's strategies for living with mental distress', 2000.
  
  Given that primary care workers are involved in helping people find coping strategies that work for them, this is directly relevant to their work. It's not aimed at that audience though. Reviewed by

• Developing Primary Care for Patients with Long-term Mental Illness' King's Fund, 1999
  Richard Byng and Helen Single
  
  Again, very practical; about organising care; would be very useful to facilitators among your membership in particular. Reviewed by

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