Author: Matt Butler

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-06-06

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1003835279

Pocket Prescriber Psychiatry, 2E is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide containing all the 'must-have' information that psychiatrists and mental health professionals need to know. KEY FEATURES • A–Z list of most commonly prescribed drugs with the prescribing information • Covers safety issues, warnings, drug errors and adverse effects • Practical guidance on drug selection, plus protocols and guidelines • Advice for complicated prescriptions and drug interactions • Endorsed by the British Association for Psychopharmacology UPDATED IN THIS SECOND EDITION • New sections on prescribing in neuropsychiatric, eating, and perinatal disorders • Useful advice on range of prescribing situations e.g. contraception, tapering, common physical health disorders. • Reworked emergencies chapter: relevant to the busy on-call clinician in a psychiatric hospital This book provides the key essential information for all mental health professionals prescribing drugs and is essential for psychiatrists, mental health nurses, primary care physicians, psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors and anyone caring for people with mental health issues.