Pocket Prescriber Psychiatry: Edition 2
About this ebook
KEY FEATURES
• A–Z list of most commonly prescribed drugs with the prescribing information
• Covers safety issues, warnings, drug errors and adverse effects
• Practical guidance on drug selection, plus protocols and guidelines
• Advice for complicated prescriptions and drug interactions
• Endorsed by the British Association for Psychopharmacology
UPDATED IN THIS SECOND EDITION
• New sections on prescribing in neuropsychiatric, eating, and perinatal disorders
• Useful advice on range of prescribing
situations e.g. contraception, tapering, common
physical health disorders.
• Reworked emergencies chapter: relevant to the
busy on-call clinician in a psychiatric hospital
This book provides the key essential information for all mental health professionals prescribing drugs and is essential for psychiatrists, mental health nurses, primary care physicians, psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors and anyone caring for people with mental health issues.
About the author
Matt Butler MRes MRCPsych Wellcome Trust Doctoral Clinical Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry, King's College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Timothy RJ Nicholson MBBS BSc MSc PhD MRCP MRCPsych Reader in Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London and Honorary Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Jonathan P Rogers MA MB BChir MRCP MRCPsych NIHR Clinical Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, University College London, UK
