Manual of psychiatric therapeutics / Richard I. Shader.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shader, Richard I., 1935-

Series:

Spiral manual

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Chemotherapy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Treatment--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Thoroughly updated in a Third Edition, Dr. Shader's popular Spiral(R) 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. This edition is also available electronically for handheld computers. See Media listing for details.

Contents:

MANUAL OF PSYCHIATRIC THERAPEUTICS

CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

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 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. TREATMENT OF ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL

13. PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS: A DIMENSIONAL APPROACH

14. APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF ANXIETY STATES1

15. TREATMENT OF TRANSIENT INSOMNIA

16. BEREAVEMENT REACTIONS AND GRIEF

17. ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF SUICIDE RISK

18. APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION

19. APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF MANICDEPRESSIVE 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 IN YOUTH AND ADULTS

23. MEDICAL USES OF HYPNOSIS

24. ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY

25. SECLUSION AS A TREATMENT MODALITY

26. USE OF PHYSICAL RESTRAINTS AS AN EMERGENCY TREATMENT

27. RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT

28. UNDERSTANDING AND ASSESSING PAIN AND PAIN SYNDROMES

29. DRUG INTERACTIONS IN PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY1

APPENDICES

I. USE OF APPROVED DRUGS FOR UNLABELED INDICATIONS.

II. HERBAL REMEDIES, OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS, AND THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION: A PERSPECTIVE

III. A PROTOTYPICAL OUTLINE OF THE MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATION

IV. A TECHNIQUE FOR PROMOTING THE RELAXATION RESPONSE1

V. THE MINI-MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION

VI. THE SHORT PORTABLE MENTAL STATUS QUESTIONNAIRE

VII. ALGORITHMS FOR PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

SUBJECT INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4698-7901-8

OCLC:

70664004