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About Therapeutic Guidelines
Getting to know your drugs
Analgesic
Antibiotic
Cardiovascular
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastrointestinal
Fatigue: diagnostic approach in primary care
Neurology
Oral and Dental
Palliative Care
Psychotropic
Respiratory
Rheumatology
Ulcer and wound management
Developmental Disability
    Contributors
    Preface
    Overview of developmental disability care
    Common presentations
    How to communicate with your patient who has developmental disability
    Methods of communication
    Informing parents of their child’s disability
    Assessment of developmental delay and disability
    Management of a child with developmental disability
    Management of an adolescent with developmental disability
    Adult health care
    Aged care
    Preventive health care and health promotion
    Challenging behaviour
    Medication and challenging behaviour
       Introduction
       Before prescribing medication
       Establishing a treatment plan
       Precautions in prescribing psychotropic medications
       Behavioural emergencies
       Repeated and serious acts of aggression
       Harmful self-injurious behaviour
       Continued agitated and restless behaviour
       Stereotyped behaviour
       Further reading
    Assessment of psychiatric disorders
    Management of psychiatric disorders
    Epilepsy
    Nutritional disorders
    Dysphagia
    Oral health
    Sexuality
    Women’s health
    Men’s health
    Advocacy
    Legal issues–consent and guardianship
    Down syndrome
    Cerebral palsy
    Autism spectrum disorders (pervasive developmental disorders)
    Fragile X syndrome
    Prader-Willi syndrome
    Tuberous sclerosis
    Rett syndrome
    Williams syndrome
    Angelman syndrome
    Noonan syndrome
    Neurofibromatosis type 1
    Fetal alcohol syndrome
    Resources
    Associations for specific syndromes
    Glossary
    List of tables, boxes and figures
    Key references
Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding