Understanding drug treatment in mental health care

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Understanding drug treatment in mental health care

Alyson J. Bond and Malcolm Lader ; foreword by David Wheatley

(The Wiley series in clinical psychology)

Wiley, c1996

  • pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Psychologists treating patients with a mental illness need to understand the treatment being administered by a medical practitioner, either a psychiatrist or GP. This book aids this understanding by describing the types of drugs that are used to treat the most common psychological disorders, including anxiety disorders, sleep disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. It also examines both the beneficial and the unwanted effects of drugs in the context of a wider treatment programme. This resource book should help clinical psychologists and other paramedics to become familiar with the sort of treatment their patients might be concurrently receiving from a medical practitioner and/or psychiatrist.

Table of Contents

  • General principles of drug treatment
  • social and psychological aspects of drug treatment
  • pharmacological factors of drug treatment
  • behavioural and cognitive effects of drug treatment
  • the combination of drug and psychological treatments
  • treatment of anxiety disorders
  • treatment of sleep disorders
  • treatment of depression
  • treatment of mania and bipolar disorder
  • treatment of schizophrenia
  • drug treatment in the elderly and children
  • drug treatment of alcohol and drug dependence.

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