Prescribing Mental Health Medication
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
