The authors delve into the various stages of psychiatric evaluation. The interview itself, the role of the interviewer, pre-interview considerations, the phases; moving to the clinical examination reviewing the Psychiatric history and mental status examination; the role of biological testing in the evaluation along with the various testing and rating scales utilized to properly diagnose the patient.

The psychiatric evaluation in clinical practice

Yudofsky, Stuart C.

MacKinnon, Roger A.

J.B. Lippincott Company

Incorporates psychodynamic with neurobiologic perspectives ...contains a section on AIDS testing and counseling plus important drug information

Principles of Psychiatric Evaluation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mackinnon, Roger A., M.d.

Mental Health

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

The American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Neuropsychiatry

Psychology & Counseling

Amer Psychiatric Pub

Discusses the use of drugs in treating mental illness, the types of conditions for which they are used, and the advantages and side effects of a variety of specific drugs

What You Need to Know About Psychiatric Drugs

Hales, Robert E.

Ferguson, Tom

Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc

A clinical guide and reference text that presents a comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatric problems of patients with traumatic brain injury, including specific clinical guidelines for treatment. Covering all practical aspects from personality changes to legal issues, the volume is divided into four sections: assessment of traumatic brain injury; psychiatric symptomatologies associated with traumatic brain injury; special populations; and treatment. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Neuropsychiatry of Traumatic Brain Injury

Silver, Jonathan M.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

The groundbreaking What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications provides practical-and essential-information for psychiatric patients and patients and their families in the form of easy-to-understand individualized medication sheets on all currently prescribed psychiatric medications.
Introductory sections of What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications details the key information presented on each medication sheet, as well as web sites, recommended reading, and a discussion of psychiatric medications in pregnancy. 
Subsequent chapters comprise the actual psychiatric medication sheets, which--due to their clear format and style--are both easy to understand and easy to translate into different languages, including Spanish. Each medication sheet lists the brand name, generic name, available strengths, generic form availability, and medication class and then discusses general information, dosing information, side effects, precautions, use during pregnancy and breastfeeding, possible medication interactions, overdose, treatment considerations, warnings, and general advice for anti-anxiety medications, medications for insomnia, antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, stimulants, and cognitive enhancers for treatment of Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Written by three psychiatric professionals with many decades of combined experience, What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications is designed to overcome barriers (such as anxiety, the “white coat effect”) to optimal psychopharmacological treatment, complement the work of the treating clinician, and enhance patients' understanding of and motivation to comply with clinicians' treatment recommendations by 
<ul>Â• Providing relevant, easy-to-use, and easy-to-understand information about psychiatric medicationsÂ• Answering the most common questions that patients have about their psychiatric medications, including how to take their medications and what the beneficial effects and the potential side effects areÂ• Emphasizing clarity, accuracy, and accessibility of the information offeredÂ• Prioritizing information that is evidence-based and enhances the safe and effective use of psychiatric medications </ul>
Densely informative, accurate, and up to date, What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications is destined to become a classic: clinical psychiatrists will feel comfortable “prescribing” this book, patient advocacy groups and county or state mental health organizations will find it useful when standardizing informed consent for psychiatric medications, and patients and their families will welcome its user-friendly presentation of complex material.

What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications

Medical Books

Chew, Robert H.

Medicine

Authored by a pharmacist and two psychiatrists, What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications is designed to provide patients with accurate, easily understood information about the drugs clinicians prescribe: antianxiety medications, medications for insomnia, antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, ADHD medications, cognitive enhancers, and, new to this edition, medications to treat alcohol dependence. For each drug, a three-to-five page handout which can be printed from the accompanying CD-ROM includes facts like generic availability, dosing instructions, side effects, possible adverse reactions, drug interactions, overdose alerts, and considerations such as missed dosages or whether to take the medication with food. This second edition has been updated to reflect new medications and enhanced understanding of familiar ones. The new section on drugs for alcohol dependence covers Antabuse (disulfiram), Campral (acamprosate), ReVia (naltrexone), and Vivitrol (naltrexone injection). New separate coverage of stimulants and nonstimulants for ADHD includes handouts for off-label use of Catapres (clonidine) and Tenex (guanfacine). The book also covers other medications introduced since the first edition: Daytrana (methylphenidate topical patch), Emsam (selegiline), Invega (paliperidone), Lunesta (eszopiclone), Lyrica (pregabalin), Pristiq (desvenlafaxine), Razadyne (galantamine, previously Reminyl), Rozerem (ramelteon), and Vyvanse (lisdexamfetamine). Recent FDA warnings regarding antidepressant and atypical antipsychotics are also reflected.

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