Outpatient Psychiatry: A Beginners Guide

Psychiatric education does not provide all a doctor needs to know about working with patients. This title provides a guide to psychotherapeutic techniques, uses of psychotropic medication and pertinent issues from the expanding field of therapy research, and includes advice about what to do and what not to do. An introduction for residents and new psychiatrists who work with patients, this brief primer provides knowledge that will reduce therapists initial anxiety and heighten their competence in working with outpatients.