What Your Patients Need to Know about Psychiatric Medications

Description

Whether it is patients’ anxiety at being in the physician’s office, psychiatric disorders that may impair attention and concentration, skepticism at the effectiveness of medication, or the physician’s own busyness, there are varied reasons why patientsmay not request all of the information they need about a psychiatric medication that is being prescribed or why physicians may not provide it.

What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications, Third Edition, remedies this problem by offering clear, accurate, and accessible information on more than 70 medications from all of the major medication classes, from antianxietymedications such as diazepam and lorazepam, to antidepressants such as fluoxetine and sertraline, to stimulants for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder such as dexmethylphenidate and oral methylphenidate.

Updated to reflect new medications that have come into the marketplace and changes to the dosing, format, and methods of prescription of existing medications, the book evaluates each medication in eight categories:

• General information
• Dosinginformation
• Commonsideeffects
• Adverse reactions and precautions
• Risk in duringpregnancy and breast-feeding
• Potentialdruginteractions
• Overdose
• Treatmentsummary

With its quick-reference format, What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications, Third Edition, is not just an invaluable resource for clinical social workers, clinical psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and residents, and community and psychiatric pharmacists. It is also a source of accessible, jargon-free guidance for patients, who can leave the physician’s office with tangible material about their specific medication, which they can retain and refer to later. 

Contents

Preface
Introduction
Instructions on How to Use This Book
Medications in Pregnancy
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Antianxiety Medications
Chapter 2. Medications for Insomnia
Chapter 3. Antidepressants
Chapter 4. Mood Stabilizers
Chapter 5. First -Generation Antipsychotics
Chapter 6. Second-Generation Antipsychotics
Chapter 7. Psychostimulants
Chapter 8. Nonstimulants for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Chapter 9. Medications for Dementia
Chapter 10. Medications for Substance Use Disorders
Index