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Psychotropic version 6, 2008
Home  Products  Psychotropic

Topics in Psychotropic version 6

Getting to know your drugs
Pertinent practical points
Anxiety and associated disorders
Sleep disorders
Mood disorders
Schizophrenia and related psychoses
Behavioural emergencies
Delirium
Dementia
Substance use disorders
Personality disorders
Eating disorders
Disorders usually first diagnosed in childhood and adolescence
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
Patient resources and support organisations
Sources of information and assistance
Clinical Institute Withdrawal of Alcohol Scale, revised (CIWA-Ar)

Getting to know your drugs

  • Antidepressants
  • Drugs used in bipolar disorder
  • Anxiolytics and hypnotics
  • Antipsychotic drugs
  • Anticholinergic antiparkinsonian drugs
  • Drugs used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Drugs used in substance use disorders
  • Drugs used in dementia
  • Other drugs used in psychiatric illness

Pertinent practical points

  • Patient issues with psychiatric treatment
    • Adherence (compliance) with psychotropic treatment
    • Informed consent in mental illness
    • Dependence, tolerance and withdrawal
    • Psychotropic treatment in special patient groups
  • Psychotropic drug issues
    • Failure to respond to treatment
    • Discontinuation of treatment
    • Drug concentration monitoring
    • Psychomotor impairment
    • Interactions with alcohol
    • As required prescribing
    • Competitive sport
  • Other therapies for psychiatric illness
    • Psychological interventions
    • Electroconvulsive therapy

Anxiety and associated disorders

  • Subsyndromal anxiety disorders
  • Adjustment disorder with anxious mood
  • Generalised anxiety disorder
  • Panic attack
  • Panic disorder
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder
  • Phobic disorders
    • Agoraphobia
    • Social anxiety disorder (social phobia)
    • Specific phobias
  • Acute stress disorder
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder

Sleep disorders

  • Insomnia
  • Sleepiness
    • Idiopathic hypersomnolence and narcolepsy
    • Periodic limb movements of sleep/wakefulness and restless legs syndrome
  • Parasomnias
    • Night terrors and somnambulism
    • Nightmares and REM sleep behaviour disturbance
  • Jet lag

Mood disorders

  • Grief
  • Depression
    • Subtypes of depression
    • Assessing patients with depression
    • Treatment of depression
    • Anxiolytic or hypnotic co-prescription with antidepressants
    • Changing from one antidepressant to another
    • Failure to respond to adequate antidepressant therapy
    • Antidepressant discontinuation
    • Electroconvulsive therapy for depression
    • Perinatal depression
    • Recurrent depression
  • Bipolar disorder
    • Acute treatment of bipolar disorder
    • Prophylaxis for bipolar disorder
    • Mixed episodes, dysphoric mania and rapid cycling bipolar disorder

Schizophrenia and related psychoses

  • Related psychoses
  • Principles of treatment
  • Treatment with antipsychotic drugs
  • Stages of treatment
  • Treatment of negative symptoms
  • Treatment-resistant schizophrenia
  • Electroconvulsive therapy for schizophrenia
  • Treatment of schizophrenia: practical prescribing points
    • Changing from one antipsychotic to another
    • Dosing strategies
    • Co-prescription of other psychotropic drugs with antipsychotics
    • Management of antipsychotic adverse effects

Behavioural emergencies

  • Legal and professional obligations
  • Initial steps in management
  • De-escalation
  • Pharmacological treatment
    • Acute medical settings
    • Acute psychiatric settings
  • Post-medication monitoring and management
  • Transportation of patients

Delirium

  • Detection and diagnosis
  • Prevention
  • Management

Dementia

  • Diagnosis and features
  • Nonpharmacological management
  • Pharmacological management

Substance use disorders

  • Alcohol abuse
  • Opioid abuse
  • Cannabis
  • Benzodiazepines, zolpidem and zopiclone
  • Stimulant abuse
    • Amphetamine and cocaine overdose and toxicity
    • ‘Ecstasy’ (MDMA, PMA) overdose and toxicity
    • Stimulant discontinuation (withdrawal) syndrome
    • Treatment of stimulant dependence
  • Hallucinogens
  • Ketamine
  • Gamma-hydroxybutyrate
  • Barbiturates
  • Inhalants
  • Anticholinergic drugs and antihistamines
  • Kava
  • Caffeine

Personality disorders

Eating disorders

  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Bulimia nervosa
  • Binge eating disorder
  • Prevention of eating disorders

Disorders usually first diagnosed in childhood and adolescence

  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Major depression
  • Anxiety disorders
    • Obsessive compulsive disorder
    • Separation anxiety disorder
    • Generalised anxiety disorder
  • Pervasive developmental disorders, including autistic disorder
  • Intellectual disability with co-morbid mental disorder
  • Tourette syndrome
  • Juvenile bipolar disorder
  • Schizophrenia and other childhood psychoses
  • Disruptive behaviour disorders (including oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder)
  • Sleep disorders
  • Enuresis

Pregnancy and breastfeeding

Patient resources and support organisations

Sources of information and assistance

Clinical Institute Withdrawal of Alcohol Scale, revised (CIWA-Ar)


Electronic version

Therapeutic Guidelines: Psychotropic is available in electronic format as part of eTG complete.

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