Therapist's Guide to Psychopharmacology: Working with Patients, Families, and Physicians to Optimize Care

This book is a revised and updated third edition that provides practitioners with the latest knowledge about psychopharmacology and collaborative care, including when and how to make medication referrals, addressing patient questions about drug benefits, side effects, and safety, and strategies for collaborating successfully with patients, their family members, and prescribers. It features case examples, sample referral letters, checklists, and a glossary.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 308 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2021
Publisher: Guilford Publications

Now in a revised and updated third edition, this noted practitioner guide and text incorporates the latest knowledge about psychopharmacology and collaborative care. Therapists and counselors learn when and how to make medication referrals and how to address patients' questions about drug benefits, side effects, safety, and more. Organized around frequently encountered mental health disorders, the book explains how medications work (including what they can and cannot accomplish). Strategies for collaborating successfully with patients, their family members, and prescribers are discussed in detail. Written for optimal practical utility, the text features case examples, sample referral letters, checklists, and a glossary.

New to This Edition:
* Chapter on the therapeutic relationship.
* New separate chapter on bipolar disorder.
* Expanded discussions of distinguishing psychiatric illness from normal distress, optimizing collaboration with psychiatrists, how medications work in the brain, treatment of chronic pain, and more.
* Additional case vignettes and psychopharmacology principles.

Weight: 466g
Dimension: 153 x 228 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781462547661
Edition number: 3 New edition