Description: "The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry is the essential evidence based handbook on the safe and effective prescribing of psychotropic agents. Covering both common and complex prescribing situations encountered in day to day clinical practice, this comprehensive resource provides expert guidance on drug choice, minimum and maximum doses, adverse effects, switching medications, prescribing for special patient groups, and more. Each clear and concise chapter includes an up to date reference list providing easy access to the evidence on which the guidance is based. The 15th edition will be fully updated to incorporate the latest available research, the most recent psychotropic drug introductions, and all psychotropic drugs currently used in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan"-- Provided by publisher.