Pharmacotherapy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders, Second Edition, (Medical Psychiatry, 18)

Covering social, ethical, and legal issues surrounding the administration of psychostimulants and antidepressants, this book presents guidelines for pharmacological intervention in childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders. Incorporating the results of studies done on specific medications, the book includes charts and tables that make information on drug interactions, side effects, and indications and contraindications easy to find. Other topics include combination therapy, pharamcoepidemiology, and pharmacoeconomics, serotonin reuptake inhibitors, selecting drugs and dosing schedules, tailoring medical treatments, and the effect of the selected drugs on cardiac function The Second Edition of Pharmacotherapy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders contains new and expanded chapters oncombination therapy pharmacoepidemiology pharmacoeconomics current social, ethical, and legal issues surrounding the administration of psychostimulants and antidepressants to childr Examines the pharmacokinetic parameters, physiological processes and developmental differences in children and adults that determine optimal dose and dosing intervals in the management of child and adolescent mental illness, with details of efficacy, potency and side effects of therapeutic agents Child psychiatry as a distinct area of study is just over a century old, developing in parallel with the psychological study of normal child development.