Prescribing Mental Health Medication: The Practitioner's Guide

Prescribing Mental Health Medication: The Practitioner's Guide
ISBN-10
0415282098
ISBN-13
9780415282093
Series
Prescribing Mental Health Medication
Category
Medical
Pages
455
Language
English
Published
2003
Publisher
Psychology Press
Author
Christopher M. Doran

Description

"Prescribing Mental Health Medication is a text for nursing and medical practitioners who are learning how to diagnose and treat mental disorders with medication. Skills-based, it focuses on the following key issues: how to start and stop medication, how to dose, when to change medication, dealing with particular kinds of patients, specific illnesses and their medication, special populations and conditions, the management of side effects, practical issues such as monitoring medication with blood levels, administrative issues such as record-keeping."--Publisher's description.

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