Περιγραφή
There is a growing need for academic enquiry acknowledging the challenges surrounding successful prescribing for mental health. This book focuses on the act and skills of psychiatric prescribing and its psychosocial context, bringing together differing views on prescribing, assessing the challenges, and identifying useful principles and guidelines together. Covering a multitude of topics including interpreting and handling uncertainty in the clinical evidence, accounting for phases of illness and natural course, collaborating with allied professionals, addressing the meaning of medications, minimising structural barriers to medications; accounting for interactive effects of dietary factors, supplements and alternative remedies, and shared decision-making approaches. Case vignettes and accompanying analysis frame the issues relevant for psychiatric prescribers and offering an approach that strikes a balance between the biological, psychological and social elements of prescribing. For psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and all those involved with the care of patients with mental health conditions.
- Draws on evidence-based practices, diverse expertise and theoretical underpinnings
- Fills a long-standing gap in the pharmacotherapy literature
- Gauge for psychiatric providers in training and practice – but has relevance for prescribing in any specialty
- Effectively tackles complex principles insufficiently addressed and presented in conventional texts and training programs
- Offers the essential skills and approaches for person-centered, recovery-oriented prescribing – anchored on the pursuit of minimum effective dosing
