The authors, three senior psychopharmacologists, offer a unique clinical perspective and practical advice on applying psychotropic medications to the treatment of specific psychiatric conditions. Clearly written in a collegial, narrative style for easy reading and comprehension, the fifth edition of this bestselling manual offers extensively updated chapters with new sections and summary tables for quick reference, including the latest information on antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, antianxiety agents, hypnotics, and stimulants. This comprehensive guide emphasizes practical advice derived from the authors? extensive clinical experience. With its liberal use of tables and illustrations, and dual appendices on medication strengths and costs and suggested readings, this up-to-date, practical manual will be warmly welcomed by not only practitioners, but also students (including those in nursing and pharmacy) and psychopharmacology residents.

Product Description: Book by Bowden, Charles L.

Product Description: This guide to drugs and drug abuse for nonmedical psychotherapists off ers all the facts about psychopharmacology. Readers learn how therapeu tic drugs work, how drugs affect the body, what danger signals to watc h for, psychological problems that respond to drug therapy, potential problems of drugs and how to prevent dangerous polydrug use, how to ga in more cooperation from medical specialists, and how to monitor compl iance with medical treatment and ensure that clients get the best poss ible care...read more

Product Description: Chapters include general discussions of anticonvulsant agents in psychiatric disorders, issues of pharmacology, and the use of anticonvulsant medications in specific psychiatric syndromes.

Product Description: Book by Moak, Gary S., Stein, Elliott M., Rubin, Joseph E. V.

Product Description: This book compares, for each of the major disorders, the three most commonly applied therapeutic approaches. Then, noting their similarities, it points out their relative strengths and weaknesses. The information presented here is thought-provoking and comprises an up-to-date source of information drawn from scores of new journals and hundreds of relevant new books...read more

Product Description: Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology

Product Description: This clear and authoritative textbook describes biological and physical therapies in psychiatry, relating them closely to patient management. A critical evaluation of the literature is provided and the authors' considerable experience in clinical practice and research will give the reader a unique insight...read more

Product Description: Many physicians are reluctant to prescribe benzodiazepines for fear that patients will become addicted. This book is designed to help practicing physicians make rational, carefully considered assessments of the risks and benefits of using benzodiazepines in the treatment of their patients...read more

Product Description: Psychotropic medications have been dramatically successful over the since the 1950s, but severe problems remain. The World Health Organization (WHO) has a legal responsibility to review these drugs, estimate their benefit/risk ratio, help ensure their proper prescription and recommend which ones require international controls...read more

Product Description: Explores the integration of dynamic psychotherapy with psychopharmacology. The text focuses on how to combine the effective and efficient use of medication with our understanding of unconscious processes.

Product Description: The fully updated Fourth Edition of this comprehensive clinical reference summarizes the latest data on hundreds of drug and device-based therapies and offers practical, evidence-based guidelines and treatment strategies for virtually every psychiatric disorder...read more

Product Description: This resource book concentrates on the most commonly used drugs, their side effects and properties, an introductory text for anyone studying drugs in the treatment of mental illness. The authors present a concise and easily accessible introduction to the nature and uses of psychiatric drugs, treatment, and the referral issues that could influence a counselors work with clients who are already using psychiatric medication or potentially should be...read more

Product Description: This well established text offers an unrivalled introduction to the use of drugs in psychiatry, looking at both general principles and specific clinical applications. The fifth edition has been fully revised to take in the ever-increasing range of drugs available and new research developments...read more

Product Description: Covering both basic science and clinical practice, this new edition of the definitive psychopharmacology text called "remarkable and scholarly" by "JAMA," "excellent" by "American Journal of Psychiatry," and "a major achievement" by "Psychiatric Times" has been thoroughly updated and expanded to keep you current with the explosive growth in this burgeoning field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Focusing on the treatment of psychopathology written for social workers, this text encompasses the issues confronting social workers with respect to mental disorders and medications. This manual provides an overview of each of the major mental disorders based on the DSM-IV, the latest version of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders", and outlines assessment, aetiological and intervention alternatives. Included is a chapter written by a psychiatrist on the use of medications in the treatment of mental disorders. A chapter written by psychologists details tests that may be used as an adjunct to assessment. Emphasizing the traditional "bio-psycho-social" view of mental disorder, the author addresses the importance of involving the family in the process of assessment and intervention planning. In this reference tool, social workers should find a useful general introduction to a subject that demands their attention as they are presented with a broader range of clients than ever before.