This comprehensive course provides the nurse practitioner student with the information and skills to initiate and monitor drug therapy. Building on a foundation of pharmacokinetics and the neurobiology of psychiatric disease, the pharmacodynamics of each drug class are analyzed in terms of practical application with relevant case studies. This course also integrates advanced clinical application of pharmacology and pharmacokinetics, techniques and methods of drug prescribing, approaches to data collection, and problem-solving with discussions about drug therapy for various conditions and populations.