Prescriber’s Guide – Children and Adolescents: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology

Explore the Essential Guide to Psychotropic Medications for Children and Adolescents

This extensively revised second edition of our comprehensive manual serves as a user-friendly resource for clinicians and nurse practitioners prescribing psychotropic medications to children and adolescents. With nearly double the medications featured in the first edition, this guide is indispensable for mental health professionals seeking to enhance their prescribing knowledge.

Key Features of the Book:

• Expanded Content: Nearly double the psychotropic medications, including new sections on pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics tailored specifically for younger populations.
• Clinical Algorithms: Easy-to-follow algorithms help address common disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and OCD.
• Evidence-Based Data: Combines the best-selling Stahl’s Prescriber’s Guide approach with clinically informed guidance, ensuring practitioners have access to the latest information.
• Color-Coded Sections: Navigate easily through therapeutics, safety and tolerability, dosing and use, expected outcomes, and the art of psychopharmacology.
• Illustrated Guidance: Each drug is presented in a classic design format with clear illustrations on dosing, titration, and pharmacogenetics/metabolism

Authors:
Stephen M. Stahl (Author)
Edition:
2nd
Publication Date:
May 2, 2024
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