Prescribing Mental Health Medication: The Practitioner's Guide

ISBN-13: 9780367466916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 542 str.

Christopher M. Doran MD

Opis

Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a comprehensive text for all practitioners who treat mental disorders with medication. This new edition is fully updated and includes additional chapters on combining medications, combining medications and psychological therapies, innovative treatments and complementary therapies.

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Spis treści

1.General principles of medication management  2.Medication myths, truths and likely patient questions  3.The initial prescriptive interview  4.Helping a patient decide to try medication  5.Starting medication  6.Follow-up appointments and strategies  7.Medication, psychotherapy and "What else helps?"  8.Stopping medication  9.The long-term patient  10.Benzodiazepines and stimulants – useful, but controversial  11."Natural" substances – do they help?  12.Using medication with children and adolescents  13.Pregnancy and psychotropics – rewards and risks  14.Prescribing psychotropics for older patients  15.Medication of sleep problems  16.Alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs and psychotropic medication  17.The confused and cognitively impaired patient – medication pitfalls  18.Inattention and hyperactivity – ADHD and stimulants  19.Side effects of psychotropic medications and their treatment  20.Danger zones – areas of risk with psychotropics  21.Medication allergies   22.Misuse of medication – taking too much and taking too little  23."Difficult" medication patients and how to treat them  24.Prescription writing and record keeping  25. Blood levels of psychotropics  26.Generic medications  27.The digital prescriber  28.The prescriber and the telephone – mainstay and millstone  29.The pharmacist, the pharmaceutical industry and the clinician  30.Preparing an office for mental health prescribing  31.The way forward