Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple 5th Edition

I really appreciated this pharm overview. As a nurse, it offered me insight regarding medications used for my psych clients. I am now better able to answer questions asked by both clients and their family members. I particularly found the "Decision Tree" tables functional and informative.

This book was used for a text book in my MFT program at CSUDH this summer 2008. Easy read and excellent to keep on the shelf as a reference. Good for basic understanding of meds and reactions to meds. Written for a lay-person to understand and grasp the fundamentals of drug use in the mental health field.

Good enough to start with and grasp the basics.

I purchased this book to review for the ANCC PMHCNS exam and it was extremely helpful. Very up to date with diagnosis and treatment recommendations. It's short and a quick read, but packed with vital information! Highly recommended!

Short. Concise. Packed with useful and needed information about basic psychopharm. treatments. There are many thick psychopharmacology books out there given the complexity of the field, but sometimes less is more. Good for an introduction to medication or as a quick field reference.

The book is helpful for understanding about the use of psychotropic medications for various diagnoses; some risks are presented in a simple manner. I purchased this book to review some of the meds prescribed for our foster children and adult customers. Often children and adults are prescribed a boat load of medications without adequate explanation of use and side effects. The side effects and reactions with some natural herbs are mentioned. Would like more about diet and nutrition for folks on these medications.

I have clients who have take various psychotropic drugs, and it's hard to keep them straight, so this helped simply the issue.

What I found most interesting about "Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple" was that it did not fit into any of the categories I inferred from the reviews. At first it appeared it might be a pseudo "Idiot's Guide to Psychopharmacology "-complete with cartoon diagrams or at least, clever and enticing text; in summary, an entertaining book at a minimum, leaving one satisfied, if not edified. My second thought was that it might be a middle-of-the-road text, attempting to be complete enough to satisfy the truly interested student of the discipline while still adding sufficiently interesting and current material to make it pleasantly readable (the latest copyright date is 2009; certainly the author must have done some interesting revision).What I found instead, to my disappointment, was a Textbook, one of those archetypical volumes that appears to espouse a single point of view so authoritatively and parentally that the reader loses his train of thought mid-sentence, apparently an attempt by the brain to discourage the reader from subjecting his cerebral processes to further suffering. In addition to Boredom-the kind of Boredom that comes from reading what one already knows or cares little about-the text appears to be out of date or inflexibly prescriptory in several sections.You can find all the knowledge in this book by a quick romp through the Internet, much less painfully, and with a wider and more modern view of the complexities of psychopharmacology-sans the parental tone.