Overview

Mental health is an important public health issue. With the changing healthcare environment, 60 per cent of patients are identified and receive treatment in the primary care setting. This handbook was developed to offer the busy primary care physician with practical strategies for screening and treating patients who have psychiatric disorders. It covers: the continually growing number of drugs available for treatment of mental disorders; an overview of the epidemiology, pathopsychology, presentation, diagnostic criteria, and screening tests for common psychiatric disorders, mood disorders, insomnia, somatization disorder, substance use disorder, eating disorders, dementia, and schizophrenia; treatment algorithms and other step-by-step approaches to direct the physician who is treating patients with mental disorders including drug dosages, schedules, schedules, routes of administration; basic pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, drug interaction and safety concerns, and practical dosing issues for all classes of drugs used to treat mental disorders; and guidelines for primary care physicians on when to refer patients to psychiatrist colleagues.

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Reviews

This is a concise well-balanced presentation of the essential practical information required by physicians and other health professionals to care for patients with psychiatric disorders. It includes helpful tools for office practice and up to date guidelines and treatment recommendations. An excellent resource! -- Larry Culpepper, M.D., M.P.H., Chairman of Family Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Overall this slim, excellent volume packed full of information is welcome.... -- Dinesh Bhugra, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom

<p> This is a concise well-balanced presentation of the essential practical information required by physicians and other health professionals to care for patients with psychiatric disorders. It includes helpful tools for office practice and up to date guidelines and treatment recommendations. An excellent resource! -- Larry Culpepper, M.D., M.P.H., Chairman of Family Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Author Information

Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D., is Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California.

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