Pharmacotherapy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders

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 re-uptake inhibitors, selecting drugs and dosing schedules, tailoring medical treatments, and the effect of the selected drugs on cardiac function.