Should you Medicate Your Child's Mind? : : a Child Psychiatrist Makes Sense of Whether to Give Kids Psychiatric Medication
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Preliminary steps toward a professional diagnosis. Identifying your child's problem -- Choosing a doctor for your child -- Preparing for your first visit -- Communicating with your child's doctor -- How your child can become overmedicated -- What is really troubling your child? Ad/hd: attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder -- Odd : Oppositional Defiant Disorder and conduct disorder -- Intermittent explosive disorder -- Major depressive disorder -- Bipolar disorder -- Borderline personality disorder -- Anxiety, social phobia, and panic disorder -- Obsessive compulsive disorder -- PtSD : Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Asperger's disorder, autistic disorder, and mental retardation -- Addictions to drugs and alcohol, and related disorders -- Does your child really need medication? Antidepressants -- Amphetamines -- Antipsychotics -- Mood stabilizers -- Antihypertensives -- Benzodiazepines -- What else can you do to help your child? -- The biological aspects to mental health -- The psychological aspecys of mental health -- The social aspects of mental health -- Your role in raising mentally healthy kids -- Parenting your willful child -- Parenting your mentally ill child.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Marlowe & Co., c2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: xxiv, 279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1569243336 (pbk.)
SUBJECTS
Pediatric psychopharmacology.
Behavior disorders in children -- Chemotherapy.
Child psychopathology -- Chemotherapy.