- The Justification for Drug Treatment
- The drug revolution in psychiatry; defining mental illness; hierarchy of medels of mental illness; drugs and the mind
- Psychopharmacology - Drugs and the Brain
- The wide spectrum of psychotherapeutic drug actions; the complexity and plasticity of brain cells and their connections; drugs, synapses and neurotransmitters; how drugs affect neurotransmission in the brain; pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics; tolerance, dependence and withdrawal effects
- Drug Treatment in Clinical Practice
- Psychotherapeutic drugs in current use; aims and stages of drug treatment for helping mental health disorders; severity and chronicity of mental ill-health and underlying physical disease as determinants of drug treatment; drug dosages and durations of treatment; dissatisfaction and non-compliance with prescribed medication; prescribing combinations of drugs; psychotherapy and subacute drug treatment for mental health disorders; placebo and nocebo effects; alternatives to long-term medication; treatment discontinuation and withdrawal effects; assessing the effectiveness of drug treatment; conclusions
- Drug Treatment and Multidisciplinary Teamwork
- Philosophy of drug treatment in community psychiatry; diagnosis multidisciplinary drug treatment; difficulties commonly encountered with drug treatment in community mental health teams
- Drug Treatment of Organic Disorders
- Delirium; the dementias; Wilson's disease; Parkinson's disease; AIDS and HIV infections; Huntington's chorea; multiple sclerosis; syphilis; promoting awareness of organic mental disorders
- Drugs and Community Treatment of Schizophrenia
- What is schizophrenia? The symptoms and syndromes of schizophrenia; treatment and management of schizophrenia
- Drug Treatment of Mood Disorders
- Classification of mood disorders; main clinical features; treatment; drugs used in treating mood disorders
- Drugs in Neuotic and Stress-Related Disorders
- Benzodiazepines; other sedatives and hypnotics; drug therapy in different neurotic disorders
- Substance Abuse
- Drug abuse; alcohol abuse; detection of drug and alcohol abuse
- The Place of Drug Treatment in Personality Disorders
- Diagnosis of personality disorders; drug treatment of personality disorder; drug treatment of mental illness in the presence of personality disorder; compliance; conclusion
- Strategies for Drug Treatment in the Community
- Patients; prescribers; paternalists
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