Author: Mark A. Riddle MD
Edition: First
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1934854034
Advances in Preschool Psychopharmacology
Advances in Preschool Psychopharmacology provides psychiatrists and other physicians with an up to date resource to meet the challenges of treating the disorders of preschool children. Medical books Advances in Preschool Psychopharmacology. The question of if, when, and how to prescribe psychopharmacologic agents to preschool children has become an increasingly pressing and contentious public health issue over the last decade. This volume provides clinicians with an up to date collection of psychopharmacologic treatment studies and related case descriptions of serious mental disorders in preschool children. Topics and challenges covered include: * balancing concerns about risk to the developing brain * off-label prescribing and the absence of sufficient empirical data to fully inform treatment decisions * the need to ameliorate the significant symptoms and impairments that preschool patients with serious mental disorders may manifest Advances in Preschool Psychopharmacology demonstrates significant progress in several areas including the treatment of ADHD and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Additionally, the studies provide direction to clinicians on making informed decisions about when to treat and how to monitor adverse effects in young children being treated with psychopharmacologic therapies Medical books Handbook of Preschool Mental Health: Development, Disorders, and Treatment. This important volume comprehensively explores the development of psychiatric disorders in 2- to 6-year-olds, detailing how the growing empirical knowledge base may lead to improved interventions for young children and their families. Leading contributors examine advances in the conceptualization and diagnosis of early-onset disruptive disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, eating and sleeping disorders, autism, and other clinical problems. Promising treatment strategies are described, including developmentally specific behavioral and play therapies, and available evidence for their effectiveness is presented. The literature on preschool psychopharmacology is also reviewed. Throughout, the discussion is grounded in the many recent advances on normative developmental processes in the preschool period.
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This important volume comprehensively explores the development of psychiatric disorders in 2- to 6-year-olds, detailing how the growing empirical knowledge base may lead to improved interventions for young children and their families. Leading contributors examine advances in the conceptualization and diagnosis of early-onset disruptive disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, eating and sleeping disorders, autism, and other clinical problems. Promising treatment strategies are described, including developmentally specific behavioral and play therapies, and available evidence for their effectiven
Overview "A milestone in understanding empirically based features of preschool psychiatric disorders has been reached with the publication of the Handbook of Preschool Mental Health...which offers significant insights on development and its influences on onset of preschool mental disorders....Sections, including those on normative development in the preschool period, mental disorders arising in the preschool period, and assessment and intervention in the preschool period, show how the integration of various processes of development form the basis of vulnerability to preschool psychiatric disor
Overview "A milestone in understanding empirically based features of preschool psychiatric disorders has been reached with the publication of the Handbook of Preschool Mental Health...which offers significant insights on development and its influences on onset of preschool mental disorders....Sections, including those on normative development in the preschool period, mental disorders arising in the preschool period, and assessment and intervention in the preschool period, show how the integration of various processes of development form the basis of vulnerability to preschool psychiatric disor
Medical Book Advances in Preschool Psychopharmacology
The question of if, when, and how to prescribe psychopharmacologic agents to preschool children has become an increasingly pressing and contentious public health issue over the last decade. This volume provides clinicians with an up to date collection of psychopharmacologic treatment studies and related case descriptions of serious mental disorders in preschool children. Topics and challenges covered include: * balancing concerns about risk to the developing brain * off-label prescribing and the absence of sufficient empirical data to fully inform treatment decisions * the need to ameliorate the significant symptoms and impairments that preschool patients with serious mental disorders may manifest Advances in Preschool Psychopharmacology demonstrates significant progress in several areas including the treatment of ADHD and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Additionally, the studies provide direction to clinicians on making informed decisions about when to treat and how to monitor adverse effects in young children being treated with psychopharmacologic therapies. This book is an important clinical tool providing an up to date account of the state of the empirical database on preschool psychopharmacology, and also serves as a testament to the need for further research.
