Main description:

This succinct handbook provides students and practitioners with clinically relevant psychotropic drug information. The Eighth Edition is designed as a reference text that also teaches by delivering informative narrative text under standard headlines with references. Its focus goes beyond drug information to cover pharmacotherapy applications.

The book provides detailed, well-referenced, evidence-based information on a wide range of psychotropic drugs, including mood stabilizers, antidepressants, and antianxiety agents. This edition has new chapters on pediatric and geriatric psychopharmacotherapy; new content on antipsychotics, hypnotics, medications used in treating alcoholism and substance dependence, and electroconvulsive therapy; and new algorithms, appendices, and tables.

Contents:

Antipsychotics

Antidepressants

Mood Stabilizers

Anxiolytics and Hypnotics

Psychotropic Drug Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Dependence

Drug Interactions

Management of Withdrawal

Electroconvulsive Therapy

Pharmacotherapy of Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders

Geriatric Psychopharmacotherapy