Description

This book of “Psychiatric disorders pharmacological treatment” to provide simple, adequate and evidence-based information to health care professionals in primary health care especially in low- and middle-income countries to be able to provide pharmacological treatment to persons with mental disorders. The manual contains basic principles of prescribing followed by chapters on medicines used in psychotic disorders; depressive disorders; bipolar disorders; generalised anxiety and sleep disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorders and panic attacks; and alcohol and opioid dependence. This manual is a reference source to assist physicians working in the primary health care through increasing their knowledge and improving their routine clinical practice in using medicines for mental disorders. It is through a reference source about pharmacological treatments only, and does not cover the overall management of mental disorders. It Describes how to diagnose and treat a common core of mental disorders for which clinicians need significant mastery depression and anxiety disorders and substance use problems. This book describes how to identify less common and more severe mental disorders that require early recognition and early referral—for example, schizophrenia, severe substance abuse, personality disorders.