Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Straight talk about psychiatric medications for kids
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
- Summary
-
Provides guidance for parents of children with emotional and behavioral problems on whether psychiatric drugs are the right treatment choice, discussing such problems as anxiety-related disorders, ...
Provides guidance for parents of children with emotional and behavioral problems on whether psychiatric drugs are the right treatment choice, discussing such problems as anxiety-related disorders, attentional disorders, autism, and schizophrenia; several types of medications; and alternatives to drugs.
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Timothy E. Wilens
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Third edition
- New York : Guilford Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
-
- viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781593858421, 1593858426, 9781593858827, 1593858825
- OCLC
- ocn202544510
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index.
- The preliminaries: building a foundation of knowledge -- The psychopharmacological evaluation: finding out what's wrong -- The diagnosis and treatment plan: laying out a strategy to help your child -- Treatment and beyond: collaborating in your child's ongoing care -- Attentional and disruptive behavioral disorders -- Autism and pervasive developmental disorders -- The mood disorders -- Anxiety-related disorders -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Disorders of known medical neurological origin -- Other mental health disturbances affecting children and adolescents -- The stimulants and nonstimulants for ADHD -- The antidepressants -- The mood stabilizers -- The anxiety-breaking medications -- The antihypertensives -- The antipsychotics --Medications for sleep, bedwetting, and other problems
Subjects
- Pediatric psychopharmacology -- Popular works.
- Mental Disorders -- drug therapy -- popular works.
Medical Subject Heading
- Psychotropic Drugs -- therapeutic use -- popular works.
Medical Subject Heading
- Child.
Medical Subject Heading