Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Fourth edition is a current, authoritative clinical guide to the pediatric use of psychotropic drugs.

For each class of drugs, Dr. Green offers practical advice on:

• titration
• dosing
• maintenance therapy
• discontinuation
• management of side effects

This thoroughly updated edition covers all new drugs and new drug formulations, particularly extended-release and "dextro" stimulant preparations. It also reviews recent controlled clinical trials and examines current controversies regarding untoward effects of some drugs.

Numerous tables—including a new table on atypical antipsychotics—summarize crucial information.

Contents

Section One: General Principles

1. Introduction
2. General Principles of Psychopharmacotherapy with Children and Adolescents

Section Two: Specific Drugs

3. Introduction
4. Sympathomimetic Amines and Central Nervous System Stimulants
5. First Generation/Typical Antipsychotic Drugs
6. Second Generation/Atypical and Other Antipsychotic Drugs
7. Antidepressant Drugs
8. Mood Stabilizers: Lithium Carbonate and Antiepileptics
9. Antianxiety Drugs
10. Other Drugs

Index

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