Pharmacological Treatment of Mental Disorders in Primary Health Care


Book Description

This manual attempts 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; generalized anxiety and sleep disorders; obsessive compulsive disorders and panic attacks; and alcohol and opioid dependence. The annexes provide information on evidence retrieval, assessment and synthesis and the peer view process.










Advances in Treatment of Bipolar Disorders


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Advances in Treatment of Bipolar Disorders provides clinicians with a well-written and timely guide to the most recent advances in the treatment of patients with this complex disorder. Staying abreast of new research developments and treatment options presents a daunting challenge, but the editor and coauthors have compiled the most important evidence-based findings from controlled studies and U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved indications, facilitating integration of these findings into clinical practice. This volume strives to provide clinicians with the necessary information to enable them to balance the likelihood of benefit (using “number needed to treat” analyses) versus harm (using “number needed to harm” analyses) in order to provide individualized, state-of-the-art, evidence-based care. The most current research findings are complemented by the authors’ extensive personal clinical experiences, resulting in a volume that reflects the most up-to-date thinking about the diagnosis and management of bipolar disorder. Advances in Treatment of Bipolar Disorders belongs in every mental health clinician’s library.




Functional Remediation for Bipolar Disorder


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Presents a novel, evidence-based psychological intervention to help therapists manage cognitive and functional deficits in bipolar disorder patients.




Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder


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Revised and updated, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder is a groundbreaking, comprehensive program to help those with bipolar disorder—and those who care about them—gain permanent control over their lives. Most people diagnosed with bipolar disorder are sent home with the name of a doctor and multiple prescriptions. However, few people with bipolar disorder are able to find long-term stability with medications alone. Bipolar disorder researcher and expert Julie A. Fast, who was diagnosed with the illness at age thirty-one, and specialist John Preston, PsyD, offer the pioneering Take Charge program used around the world to help readers promote stability, reduce mood swings, increase work ability, decrease health care costs, and improve relationships. The book guides those with bipolar disorder and their loved ones toward a comprehensive personal treatment plan by incorporating: Medications and bipolar-safe supplements Lifestyle changes that help manage bipolar symptoms naturally Behavior modifications that reduce and prevent symptoms Guidelines on assembling an effective support team By helping readers gather powerful strategies, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder delivers a dynamic program to treat this difficult but ultimately manageable illness.




Healing Depression & Bipolar Disorder Without Drugs


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When Gracelyn Guyol was diagnosed in 1993 with a mild form of bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, she was prescribed a commonly used antidepressant. Soon she developed breast cysts and benign tumors, a possible side effect of the antidepressant. She went off the drug and within two months, her tumors disappeared. Under the care of a naturopath, Guyol embarked on a quest to educate herself about the underlying genetic, hormonal, and other causes of depression and bipolar disorder. She investigated many natural therapies-including diet, vitamins, herbal treatments, and energy healing-before finding the solutions that have kept her free of depression and bipolar symptoms since 2002. Healing Depression & Bipolar Disorder Without Drugs features Gracelyn Guyol's own story and those of thirteen other people around the country who have cured their depression and bipolar disorder using only natural therapies. In-depth research and the expertise of alternative health-care professionals are included in this landmark guide for patients and caregivers seeking responsible, safe alternatives to psychiatric drugs.




One Bipolar Cure!


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A physicist and nuclear engineer became bipolar due to bullying throughout childhood but mostly due to a degrading wife. He experienced 17 years of severe sporadic manic episodes even with medications. With his conflicting physical exercises, he carefully and briefly extends his mind to emotional limits to release trauma energy from the brain. His facial meditation practices reduce mental energy and calms the mind and body. Briefly extending the brain and mind to limits heals the brain and mind and maintains control at expanded emotional limits. He has healed his disorder with conflicting physical exercises at mental limits. The subconscious mind learns to heal itself when briefly experiencing mental limits. Athletes extend minds and bodies to limits to be all they can be. He has practiced conflicting psychiatric exercises for 28 years with medications – One Bipolar Cure! Bipolar disorder is caused by stress beyond ability to cope with feelings of no way out. Normal everyday interactions and coping skills are overridden by high-energy emotional survival thinking. Survival thoughts override reasoning with others. The manic mind goes out of control. In the author’s first manic episode, he had a need to learn of God’s origin. His imaginary manic model explains God’s origin. While working on his first healing book, he received a traumatic inner voice: “Don’t Leave God Out.” His writing became spiritual. Jesus and God are important in his healing and beliefs




Neurological, Psychiatric, and Developmental Disorders


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Brain disordersâ€"neurological, psychiatric, and developmentalâ€"now affect at least 250 million people in the developing world, and this number is expected to rise as life expectancy increases. Yet public and private health systems in developing countries have paid relatively little attention to brain disorders. The negative attitudes, prejudice, and stigma that often surround many of these disorders have contributed to this neglect. Lacking proper diagnosis and treatment, millions of individual lives are lost to disability and death. Such conditions exact both personal and economic costs on families, communities, and nations. The report describes the causes and risk factors associated with brain disorders. It focuses on six representative brain disorders that are prevalent in developing countries: developmental disabilities, epilepsy, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and stroke. The report makes detailed recommendations of ways to reduce the toll exacted by these six disorders. In broader strokes, the report also proposes six major strategies toward reducing the overall burden of brain disorders in the developing world.




Integrative Psychotherapy for Bipolar Disorders


Book Description

Outlines the foundations of an integrative psychological treatment for bipolar disorder, featuring sessions for clinical practice.