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 Series Introduction......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 Contents......Page 16 Contributors......Page 20 Historical Perspective on Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology......Page 22 Ethical Issues in Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research......Page 28 Pharmacoepidemiology of Psychotropic Medications in Youth......Page 44 Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology: A Call for Pharmacoeconomics Research......Page 72 Clinical Pharmacology of Psychoactive Drugs in Childhood and Adolescence......Page 92 Cardiac Side Effects of Psychotropic Medications in Children and Adolescents......Page 108 Psychostimulants......Page 134 Tricyclic Antidepressants......Page 190 Selective Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitors......Page 244 Novel (Atypical) Antidepressants......Page 318 Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors......Page 338 Antipsychotic Agents......Page 376 Lithium......Page 436 Anticonvulsants......Page 474 Anxiolytics......Page 510 Adrenergic Agents in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry......Page 564 Atypical and Adjunctive Agents......Page 618 Pediatric Psychopharmacology in the Consultation-Liaison Setting......Page 656 Pharmacological Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders......Page 700 Combination Pharmacotherapy......Page 732 Index......Page 742 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.