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Grand Forks, BC

V0H 1H0   Canada

Phone:   250-442-1224
Fax:     250-442-1290
E-Mail:  terry@igrpublications.com
 
 
 
 

IGR Publications

Publisher of Mental Health Handbooks
 
 

"For over twenty years, the Psychotropic Agent Handbook for Mental Health Workers has been used by Nursing Schools, Mental Health Centres and Residential Care Facilities throughout Canada and the United States of America.

It has been recognized as an invaluable tool in learning about psychotropic agents, their mode of actions side effects and client information sheets. The text is now being used by medical students at the University of BC for it's ease of use, understandability and comprehensiveness."

Online Journal of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health Care

 

 

 

 

Current Publications
 

New Editions are released when new medications come on the market; and/or when the use/indication of use of the current medications changes; or when medications are found to be useful when used in combination with other medications. At this time no new edition in either publication is being considered.

We specialize in the publication of Mental Health Handbooks with the following titles:

Psychotropic Agents

15th Edition (June 2010)

 

Addictions and

Mental Health 

5th Edition (2009)

About the Author
 Irene Ralph is a Registered Psychiatric Nurse with over 35 years experience in the field of Mental Health.  She has worked as a Nurse on  Inpatient Psychiatric Units,  as a Clinician in urban and rural Community Mental Health and Addictions settings, as a Manager of Mental Health and Addictions Services, and she is a pioneer of Dually Disordered treatment in Vancouver, BC.  Irene is also a Psychogeriatric Clinician and a private and contracted Instructor with leading Colleges on such topics as Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Mental Health and Addictions, DSM IV, and a number of other related topics.  She is currently almost retired, working as a Clinical Instructor for Stenberg College in the specialty areas of Older Adult and Acute Psychiatry.

 Irene has been authoring Psychotropic Agents for almost 30 years and the text is widely used as a teaching tool by many University and College programs across Canada, and is a valuable resource to those of any discipline working with persons with mental health issues. Addictions and Mental Health is also used as a resource text for a number of programs and as a reference tool for anyone where mental health and addictions are an issue.

 

Contact Us: irene@igrpublications.com

 

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Updated: Wednesday January 25, 2012