Wyatt's Practical Psychiatric Practice

In today's world of litigation and managed care, informed
consent in psychiatric practice is more important than ever and providing
detailed information about illnesses and medications to patients and their
families is vital to informed consent.

The easy-to-read handouts on
psychiatric illnesses and medications in the third edition of this immensely
popular-and above all, practical-volume are key to helping patients and
families understand their treatments before giving informed consent. This
nuts-and-bolts resource is designed to help both beginning and seasoned
clinicians get started and stay organized, providing a single source for the
many practical forms, abbreviated rating scales and instruments, and
information handouts for patients and their families used in daily clinical
practice.

With an updated format of three rather than two sections,
this invaluable reference has been revised as follows:


* Physician Forms-Previous forms have been updated and revised,
nonapplicable forms have been deleted, and new forms, such as a Medication
Log, Clozapine Prescribing Guidelines and Monitoring Form, and Informed
Consent to Treatment with Psychotropic Medications, have been added. Most
significantly, long versions of rating scales have been replaced by
abbreviated versions (e.g., the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale was replaced
with the 4-Item Positive Symptom Rating Scale and Brief Negative Symptom
Assessment, and the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale was condensed to a
single page), and new rating scales have been added, including the Brief
Bipolar Disorder Symptom Scale and the Hamilton Depression Rating
Scale.

* Information about Psychiatric Illnesses for Patients and
Families-These handouts for patients and their families have been
aggressively revised to include current information on new medications, with
brand-new handouts about Alzheimer's disease,
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and anxiety
disorders.

* Information about Medications for Patients and
Families-Extensively revised to consolidate the discussion of
medications, or a drug class, from a long and short version (from previous
editions) to a single version, these medication handouts have been expanded
to include information on the second-generation antipsychotics, agents for
treatment of ADHD, cognitive enhancers, recently introduced antidepressants,
and the new mood stabilizers.

Medical students, psychiatric
residents, and busy clinicians treating patients individually or in groups
will appreciate the unsurpassed convenience of this indispensable volume,
with its complete set of forms and protocols and comprehensive list of
illness and medication handouts for patients and families.

Truly the
ultimate in practicality, this edition, like the two previous editions, is
packaged with easy-to-use, convenient electronic versions (in PDF files) on
CD-ROM, enabling practitioners to print these forms as needed.