Description
The Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists is the go-to resource for mental health clinicians searching for clear, reliable information about the remedy of mental health issues. Organized by disorder and, within each disorder, by medication, this book is designed to familiarize clinicians and students with the basic terminology and models of pharmacokinetics.
This fully revised and up to date eighth edition provides essential information on new medications and remedy options and includes the recent research on side effects, contraindications, and efficacy of all major medications prescribed for mental health disorders. The book also features the most important new chapter on the effects of withdrawing from psychopharmacological medications.
This handbook makes it simple to: get the facts about drug interactions and side effects; learn the way medications impact adults, children, and adolescents in a different way; learn the way different cultures view medical remedy, vital information for anyone who treats clients from quite a few backgrounds; and discontinue medication safely when needed.
This essential guide to psychopharmacology has been adopted as a textbook at universities nationwide and is the most important resource for every therapist’s library.