Psychopharmacology Handbook for the Non-Medically Trained
Product Description
The first-ever handbook of its kind, Psychopharmacology Handbook for the Non-Medically Trained fills a noticeable gap in most student training programs by providing a reader-friendly and accessible overview of the role of drugs in mental health treatment. Written in plain language, the book covers the most common medications used in mental health practice as well as addressing addictions issues, nonprescription medications, and herbal preparations. Emphasizing the importance of making medications available to consumers in conjunction with the most effective and efficient counseling interventions, Dziegielewski establishes the context for the therapeutic use of psychotropic drugs in the culture of today’s mental health treatments, examines the danger of the “quick fix” mentality into which consumers and clinicians are tempted to fall, and then focuses on the medications themselves.
Psychopharmacology Handbook for the Non-Medically Trained
