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Use of medications that target specific behaviors affecting learning and social development has been the most extensively studied form of intervention available to children with behavioral and learning problems. Drawing from extensive research literature spanning the past 30 years, this guide for psychologists and other professionals who work with children, families, and schools provides a comprehensive review of pediatric and adolescent psychopharmacology. The guide provides knowledge of major classes of drugs, pharmacokinetics, specific indications for medication, potential benefits, and drug side effects. The guide includes a discussion of standardized behavior scales used in clinic practice as well as many of the psychopharmacological studies in the medical literature. Following an overview (chapter 1) noting the increased prevalence of medication and implications of monitoring safety and efficacy of such medications in the school setting, the guide's chapters are: (2) "Basic Principles of Pharmacology," including dependence, addiction, mechanisms of drug action, and adverse side effects; (3) "Short-Term Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Psychotropic Medications," including

Author

Ronald T. Brown, Michael G. Sawyer

Publisher

Guilford Press, 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012; phone: 800-365-7006; fax: 212-966-6708; World Wide Web: http://www.guilford.com ($27.95, plus $4 shipping)

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572303164

Subjects

Medical, Technology, Nursing