Description
A guide for physicians and clinicians to understanding and choosing the right kind psychiatric medications and for their patients who need to learn how this must be done.
This book teaches mental health professionals how to make a choice and use psychotropic medications to address the biological etiology of psychiatric disease and mental health. It helps readers consider the key aspects of psychotherapy to care for the psychosocial factors that prescribers want to know to use these medications within the context of the patient’s life.
This book is based on the premise that each one mental health―in the most symptomatic, impaired individual and in the most mentally healthy individual―is caused by a combination of biopsychosocial factors. Mental health professionals want to recognize and consider these factors and their interactions, and correct them. An understanding of a majority of these factors, and of psychopharmacology, can lead to better remedy decisions.
This book is for many readers: for psychiatrists who recognize the daily challenges in treating patients; for primary care physicians who identify psychiatric disorders in their patients; for non-medically-trained mental health professionals who want a more sophisticated understanding of psychopharmacology; and even for patients who want and need a better understanding of the medications their doctors have prescribed them.