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- File Size: 18.43 MB
- Authors: Richard Fotter
Description
Psychology and Geriatrics demonstrates the value of integrating psychological knowledge and insight with medical training and geriatric care. Leading physician and geropsychologist contributors come together to share their collective wisdom about topics that are as emotionally uncomfortable as they are universally relevant. As the world struggles to respond to unprecedented gains in life expectancy and an explosion of new retirees living with chronic health conditions, this collaboration could not be more timely. This exceptional resource is, itself, evidence that physicians and psychologists can work together to optimize truly patient-centered geriatric care. Here at last is a scientifically rigorous, evidence-based response to the aging mind and body from those most expertly trained.
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I definitely did not get adequate training on what to do when a patient on psychotropics informs you they’re pregnant. This book is a very easy read for the psychiatric prescriber (and likely accessible for primary care providers as well), and lays out the risks/benefits of treatment vs nontreatment for a variety of psychiatric conditions, including risks to maternal and fetal health based on disease process and how that compares to risks seen with exposure to certain medications. This, along with the MGH Center for Women’s Health database, are the best foundations I’ve found for outpatient psychiatric management of the pregnant patient.
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