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Clinical Manual of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology By Edited by Robert L. FindlingM.D. ( American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. )
Release Date: 2007-10-15
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Clinical Manual of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology is a succinct and practical guide that enables practitioners to more effectively address commonly-seen disorders such as ADHD, gain new insight into high-profile problems like juvenile suicide, and become better informed regarding conditions, such as anxiety, that frequently go undiagnosed and untreated. The contributors review developmental aspects of pediatric psychopharmacology, address specific disorders in chapter-length detail, and discuss the pharmacotherapy of youths who are primarily seen in general medical settings, covering such conditions as functional somatic syndromes and somatoform disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders, elimination disorders, and delirium.
Specific chapters cover the problems that practitioners find most vexing, including the use of stimulant and nonstimulant agents for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, pharmacological approaches to patients with disruptive behavior disorders, benefits and risks of medications for anxiety disorders, combination pharmacotherapeutic approaches for bipolar disorders, and use of antidepressants for autism and other pervasive developmental disorders. Throughout the text, the contributors provide commentary regarding the clinical interpretability of existing literature to better enable clinicians to incorporate research results into their practice.
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Disappointing ( folkeyman )
I am sending this book back and asking for a refund.I am a 65 yo MD practicing CHild,adolescent and adult Psychiatry for 34 years in California.The majority of my work is outpatient but this book has two glaring deficiencies that make it suspect.
No 1. In the section on Bipolar disorder, the authors enthusiastically endorse and encourage the use of Carbamazepin (Tegretol) as a first line drug for teens.Blood work every week for the first few.Hello, have they not heard of Oxycarbamazepine (Trileptal) which is Tegretal with a few different molecules.THere are NO side effects of real merit with Trileptal, no liver enzyime elevations and no blood work.I,ve used it with lots of teens and some under ten for the past 4 years that I learned about it, from Dr. T> WILENS at Harvard Medical school.
Secondly, the antidepressant Cymbalta is NOT EVEN MENTIONED inthe book tho its been availble for three years and works well in teens,even if not approved by the fda.. Thirdly, the section on tic disorders is not even written by a Physician.
Also there is little discussion on the very controversial finding by the fda, that black box warning about increased suicidal ideation be placed on several ssri,s.I called 9 of my colleagues, with a total clinical experience profile of about 288 years and NOT ONE has ever seen increased suicidal ideation soon after the start of any of the SSRI,s and the newer antidepressants.
ALso the section on Bipolar illness is short,superficial and doesn,t do real justice to the gravity of the illness in small children and the difficulty in diagnosis.
This book is not worth fifty bucks.
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