Announcing the only resource to focus on the prescription of psychiatric drugs to paediatric patients! This landmark new book offers how-to guidance on performing baseline assessments, monitoring outcomes and adverse events, developing psychoeducational strategies, choosing first-line treatments, and more. In addition, it shows how to apply these principles to the psychopharmacologic management of a large number of child and adolescent psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, and behaviour disturbances.
Section I: Beginnings. Read Me First: Why This Book? Section II: Baseline Assessments for Psychopharmacologic Treatments. Introduction. Baseline Medical Assessments for Psychopharmacologic Treatment. Baseline Individual Psychiatric Assessment for Psychopharmacologic Treatment. Other Useful Baseline Assessments for Psychopharmacologic Treatment. Section III: Planning, Initiating, And Providing Psychopharmacologic Treatment. Introduction. Educational Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. Pragmatics of Psychopharmacologic Treatment in Children and Adolescents. Section IV: Practical Clinical Practice of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. Introduction. General Issues in the Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Anxiety Disorders. Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Panic Disorder. Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Other Anxiety Disorders. Pharmacologic Treatment of Depressive Disorders. Pharmacologic Treatment of Bipolar Disorder. Pharmacologic Treatment of Acute Schizophrenia. Long-Term Pharmacologic Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Schizophrenia. Pharmacologic Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Pharmacologic Treatment of Autism and Mental Retardation. Other Conditions for Which Pharmacologic Treatment Is Indicated in Children and Adolescents. Section V: Postscript. No Person Is an Island: The Current Practice of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology in Its Historical Context.
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