Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs - Softcover

Bezchlibnyk-Butler, Kalyna Z.; Jeffries, J. Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889373086 ISBN 13: 9780889373082

Publisher: Hogrefe & Huber, 2006

Synopsis

"The Clinical Handbook" has become a standard reference and working tool for thousands of psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians, nurses, and other mental health professionals. This book is a must for everyone who needs an up-to-date, easy-to-use, comprehensive summary of all the most relevant information about psychotropic drugs. It helps you: find clear advice about medication options and precautions; look up details of a range of treatment options in easy-to-read comparison charts; check up on the precautions needed in the young, the elderly, or pregnant patients; see potential interactions and side effects at a glance; and much, much more. Widely regarded as the best practical guide on the market, "The Clinical Handbook" presents readers with reliable, easy-to-find, state-of-the-art information. With its spiral-bound horizontal page format, succinct, bulleted outline information, clearly laid out comparison charts and tables, and comprehensive index of generic and trade names - all the latest scientific data, clinical guidelines, and patient instructions are uniquely accessible.

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Review:

"The most valuable text of 2005..." in the category "Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing" by the American Journal of Nursing in the AJN's Book of the Year Awards (Volume 106, Issue 1, p. 51-56) "...an essential reference... a very practical handbook, packed with numerous charts and tables. Up-to-date and most welcome straightforward guide to psychotropic drugs. Overall a top quality publication full of essential information and data" P. Shelley, Drogo Research - International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research "...invaluable in clinical practice as well as psychiatric research...an excellent teaching tool for medical students and residents...widely used in the office by nurses and clinical coordinators involved in our clinical research studies." Corey Goldstein, MD, Rush Presbyterian - St. Luke's Medical Center "...a very useful quick reference guide to the main classes of psychotropic drugs in current use... should be available in every medical library and psychiatric department as an invaluable quick reference guide for the busy clinician." B. E. Leonard, Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, (Vol. 19, 2004)"

About this edition

• Publisher: Hogrefe & Huber
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0889373086
• ISBN 13: 9780889373082
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 368