Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology

By S.P. Kutcher and S. P. Kutcher MD FRCP(C)

Announcing the only resource to focus on the prescription of psychiatric drugs to paediatric patients This landmark new book offers how-to guidance on performing baseline assessments, monitoring outcomes and adverse events, developing psychoeducational strategies, choosing "first-line" treatments, and more. In addition, it shows how to apply these principles to the psychopharmacologic management of a large number of child and adolescent psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, and behaviour disturbances.
Incorporates up-to-date information on efficacy, side effects, and drug metabolism.Discusses the basic types of baseline assessments--diagnostic, medical, symptomatic, functional, and more--that are necessary to initiate psychopharmacologic treatment.
Covers fundamental principles of treatment such as models of care, selection of pharmaceutical agents, therapeutic drug monitoring, education strategies, and dealing with refractory cases.Describes, step by step, how to initiate, monitor, evaluate, improve, or change treatment according to the type of diagnosis or patient problem.
Includes an appendix that explains how to set up a psychopharmacologic treatment clinic and lists a variety of assessment instruments that are useful in everyday practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721657494
• ISBN13: 9780721657493
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Highly practical review of child psychopharmacology

Of all the texts available on the subject of the psychopharmacology of childhood psychiatric disorders this is the one I like the best. The main reason is the care and detail in which Dr. Kutcher sets forth the (for me) basic axiom of treating children, which is that each child is unique, so each medication trial is, in effect, a research experiment with a N of 1. He provides an excellent range of measurement tools, including making up your own for specific symptoms. There are lots of good clinical examples which ground medication in the context of the child and family. All in all an unusually practical and well-written book. Wm. Bolman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry