Psychiatry offers up-to-date information in the pharmacotherapy of common psychiatric conditions. Through a series of three modules, the book covers schizophrenia and mood disorders as well as two less commonly reviewed disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder. Special topics, geriatric psychiatry and the metabolic, endocrinologic, and cardiovascular adverse effects associated with psychotropic drugs, also are included.

This book is designed to help pharmacists:

• Understand the advances in the etiology and diagnosis of psychiatric conditions.
• Incorporate advances in psychopharmacology into their knowledge base and pharmacotherapy recommendations.
• Recognize, monitor, and manage the risks for metabolic and neurologic adverse events caused by psychotropic drugs.
• Gain insight into the signs and symptoms of the lesser recognized disorders, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder, as well as the role of the pharmacist in managing these disorders.
• Provide recommendations to improve drug safety and management of psychiatric conditions in geriatric patients.

Other topics covered in the 11-book series include Cardiology; Health Care Stakeholders; Geriatrics; Special Populations; the Science and Practice of Pharmacotherapy; Infectious Diseases; Gastroenterology; Nutrition; Chronic Illnesses; Pediatrics; Hematology; Oncology; Critical Care; and Transplantation.

PSAP is dedicated to offering the most up-to-date and comprehensive information available on recent drug therapy advances. Each book will further your knowledge in the therapeutic area it covers. PSAP is available in both print and online versions.

Publisher: ACCP, Softbound, July 2004, ISBN: 1-932658-05-X

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