Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology ─ A Handbook for Clinicians

Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology: A Handbook for Clinicians is a practical guide for the growing number of mental-health practitioners searching for information on treatments that combine psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychosocial rehabilitation. Research shows that combined approaches are among the most effective ways to treat an increasing number of psychiatric disorders. However, though these combined treatments are becoming the everyday practice of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental-health professionals, identifying the right treatment plan can be notoriously difficult, and clinicians are often left scrambling to answer questions about how to design and customize their treatment strategies. In Integrating Psychotherapy and Psychopharmacology, readers will find these questions fully addressed and the answers explained, and they’ll come away from the book with a toolbox full of strategies for helping their patients improve symptoms, achieve remission, and stay well using a combination of drug and psychological treatments.

Irismar Reis de Oliveira, MD, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry in the department of neurosciences and mental health at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He is the creator of the Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy and has trained therapists in Brazil and other countries in this model. Dr de Oliveira also maintains a private practice and is the editor of Standard and Innovative Strategies in Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Thomas Schwartz, MD, is a professor in the department of psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, where he is also director of adult psychiatric clinical services, assistant director for psychiatric medical students, and director of the Depression and Anxiety Disorders Research Program. Dr. Schwartz also maintains a private practice and consults for the Indian Health Service, the Neuroscience Education Institute, pharmaceutical company and associated industries as well. He is the coeditor of Depression: Treatment Strategies and Management, 2^nd Ed.

Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, is adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, chairman of the Neuroscience Education Institute and honorary visiting senior fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of over 400 articles and chapters, more than 1,200 scientific presentations and abstracts, and the author of many books, including the best-selling and award-winning Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, and The Prescriber’s Guide, both now in their fourth editions, and the recently published series of clinical cases, Case Studies: Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology.