Publisher's Synopsis
This clinically-focused pocket guide provides access to critical information on psychotropic drugs. It details all aspects of psychotropic drugs and those drugs used to manage their side effects. Coverage includes a text overview of the pharmacologic issues essential to drug-related assessment, intervention, evaluation and patient education for DSM-IV disorders, along with more than 80 alphabetically-organized monographs of drugs frequently administered by psychiatric nurses.;Part One, "Assessment and Treatment Issues", presents an overview, in text form, of considerations influencing effectiveness and compliance of various classes of psychotropic drugs used in treating depressive, bipolar, anxiety, eating, sleep and psychotic disorders, and issues related to the use of psychostimulants. Part Two presents more than 80 drug monographs in alphabetical order by generic drug name.
