Manual of Psychiatric Therapeutics

Thoroughly updated in a Third Edition, Dr. Shader’s popular Spiral® Manual is a practical, authoritative, easy-to-use guide to the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. This edition features new chapters on pharmacotherapy for children and youth and on pain management and an expanded chapter on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in youth and adults. Coverage also includes complete updates on all psychotropic drugs and an expanded, totally revamped chapter on drug interactions. A new appendix presents a bibliography of algorithms for psychopharmacology and lists Websites to consult for updated iterations.

FEATURES:

• Concise, reader-friendly text makes key facts easy to find and reference
• Disease-specific organization makes this far more useful than a drug manual -- discussing the many therapeutic approaches to each disease
• Unified approach links basic science with practical modes of therapy
• Convenient spiral binding.

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction: A Perspective on Contemporary Psychiatry as a Background to Psychopharmacology
• 2 The Mental Status Examination
• 3 Medical Evaluation of Psychiatric Patients and the Acute Treatment of Psychotropic Drug Overdose
• 4 Dissociative, Somatoform, and Paranoid Disorders
• 5 Delirium and Dementia
• 6 Obsessions and Compulsions and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• 7 Tics, Tourette's Disorder, and Related Problems
• 8 Disorders of Eating: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-eating Disorder
• 9 Treatment of Physical Dependence on Barbiturates, Benzodiazepines, and Other Sedative Hypnotics
• 10 Opioid Abuse and Dependence: Acute and Chronic Treatment
• 11 Alcoholism and Its Treatment
• 12 The Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal
• 13 The Pharmacologic Treatment of Personality Disorders: A Dimensional Approach
• 14 Approaches to the Treatment of Anxiety States
• 15 The Treatment of Transient Insomnia
• 16 Bereavement Reactions and Grief
• 17 Assessment of Suicide Risk and the Treatment of Suicidal States
• 18 Approaches to the Treatment of Depression
• 19 The Treatment of Manic-Depressive States (Bipolar Disorders)
• 20 Approaches to the Treatment of Schizophrenia
• 21 Approaches to the Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Children and Youth
• 22 Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Youth and Adults
• 23 Medical Uses of Hypnosis
• 24 Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
• 25 Seclusion as a Treatment Modality
• 26 The Use of Physical Restraints as an Emergency Treatment
• 27 Rape and Sexual Assault
• 28 Understanding and Assessing Pain and Pain Syndromes
• 29 Drug Interactions

APPENDIXES

• I Use of Approved Drugs for Unlabeled Indications
• II Herbal Remedies, OTCs, and the FDA: A perspective
• III A Prototypical Outline of the Mental Status Examination
• IV A Technique for Promoting the Relaxation Response
• V The Mini-Mental State Examination
• VI The Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire
• VII Algorithms for Psychopharmacology