| Abstract: | This annual publication (2003) updates readers about the major classes of psychotropic medications. It reviews some 14 groups of interventions: antidepressants, electroconvulsive therapy, antipsychotics (neuroleptics), antiparkinsonian agents, anxiolytic agents, hypnotics/sedatives, mood stabilizers, psychostimulants, cognition enhancers, sex-drive depressants, drugs of abuse, treatment of substance use disorders, new unapproved treatment of psychiatric disorders, and herbal and natural products. Following the body of the text, there appears a Glossary, Suggested Readings, an Index of Drugs, and some helpful Patient Information Sheets. Psychotherapists will find this a useful, and state-of-the-art text. Although the information provided can be obtained through a wide range of competing sources, it is the organization, formulation, and patient information features that make this text relatively unique. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
