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

✍ Scribed by David Rosenberg, Samuel Gershon

• Publisher: Informa Healthcare
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 767
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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, 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.

✦ Table of Contents

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