9780415536097-041553609X-Prescribing Mental Health Medication: The Practitioner's Guide

Prescribing Mental Health Medication: The Practitioner's Guide

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Prescribing Mental Health Medication: The Practitioner's Guide (ISBN-13: 9780415536097 and ISBN-10: 041553609X), written by authors Christopher Doran MD, Christopher Doran, was published by Routledge in 2013. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Anxiety Disorders (Mental Health, Psychopharmacology, Psychology & Counseling, Health Care Delivery, Administration & Medicine Economics, Psychiatry & Mental Health, Nursing, Pain Medicine, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Psychopharmacology, Psychology, Social Work, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Prescribing Mental Health Medication: The Practitioner's Guide (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Anxiety Disorders books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.99.

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Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a text for practitioners who treat mental disorders with medication. It explains the entire process of medication assessment, management and follow up for general medical practitioners, mental health practitioners, students, residents, prescribing nurses and others perfecting this skill. Already used by providers and training institutions throughout the world, the newly revised second edition is completely updated and focuses on the following key issues:

  • How to determine if medication is needed
  • Proper dosing and how to start and stop medication
  • When to change medication
  • Dealing with difficult patients
  • Specific mental health symptoms and appropriate medication
  • Special populations including pregnant women, substance abusers, children and adolescents, and the elderly
  • Monitoring medication with blood levels
  • Management of medication side effects and avoidance of medication risk
  • The misuse of medication
  • Prescription of generic preparations
  • Prescriptions via the Internet, telemedicine, and electronic medical records
  • Organizing a prescriptive office and record-keeping

Completely updated, this text includes information on all psychotropic medications in use in the United States and the United Kingdom. It incorporates clinical tips, sample dialogues for talking about medications to patients, and information specifically relevant in primary care settings.

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