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.Newly organized for this edition into three instead of two sections, all forms, rating scales, and handouts have been extensively updated, with some deleted and others added. Medication handouts have been consolidated from long and short versions for each to a single version for each, and expanded to include the latest information.Medical students, psychiatric residents, and busy clinicians treating patients individually or in groups will appreciate the unsurpassed convenience of this indispensable volume.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.