The Science and Ethics of Antipsychotic Use in Children

• Author : Nina Di Pietro,Judy Illes
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2015-04-25
• Total pages : 228
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : The Science and Ethics of Antipsychotic Use in Children reviews the latest findings for the safety and efficacy of the rapidly rising incidence of antipsychotic use in children and examines tensions that are created by off-label use, both in clinical psychiatric practice and research. In the past ten years, the ...

• Author : Joel Dudley,Laura Berliocchi
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2017-07-14
• Total pages : 313
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : Nervous system diseases represent a major health concern worldwide. Although important financial and professional investment, their etiology and pathophysiology still remain mostly elusive. Moreover, the clinical need of disease-modifying therapies is still unmet. In the last decades, traditional R&D has failed in identifying new effective therapies in many medical ...

• Author : Edmund Liem
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2019-05-11
• Total pages : 140
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : This book is designed to enable (pediatric) dentists to recognize the signs and symptoms of sleep disorders in their pediatric patients, it will help to understand the potential negative impact of a sleep disorder on the metabolic and cognitive neurodevelopment of a child and how to collaborate with others to ...

• Author : Robert Weis
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release Date : 2017-02-01
• Total pages : 688
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : Robert Weis' third edition of Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology adopts a developmental psychopathology approach to understanding child disorders. Using case studies, this perspective examines the emergence of disorders over time, pays special attention to risk and protective factors that influence developmental processes and trajectories, and examines child ...

• Author : Mansfield Mela, M.B. B.S., M.Sc.Psych.
• Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
• Release Date : 2021-01-19
• Total pages : 472
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : "This book provides clinically relevant information for mental health experts, including professionals in the medical, mental, educational, vocational, legal and correctional, child welfare, and others, who encounter individuals with a hidden disability. Professionals require essential training to appropriately support patients who navigate the mental health system because of the consequences ...

• Author : Elizabeth B. Torres
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2018-06-29
• Total pages : 580
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : Objective Biometric Methods for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Nervous System Disorders provides a new and unifying methodological framework, introducing new objective biometrics to characterize patterns of sensory motor control underlying symptoms. Its goal is to radically transform the ways in which disorders of the nervous system are currently diagnosed, ...

• Author : Sharna Olfman,Brent Dean Robbins
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release Date : 2012-02-27
• Total pages : 232
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : This book exposes the skyrocketing rate of antipsychotic drug prescriptions for children, identifies grave dangers when children's mental health care is driven by market forces, describes effective therapeutic care for children typically prescribed antipsychotics, and explains how to navigate a drug-fueled mental health system. • A chapter on effective parenting coauthored ...

• Author : Stephen Gislason
• Publisher : Persona Digital Books
• Release Date : 2016-05-06
• Total pages : 180
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : Examines the intense interactions of parents and children. From Dr. G's preface:" Parents receive a lot of advice from many people. Popular magazines and books offer a continuous stream of conflicting advice. Professionals have a variety of opinions about child-rearing that range from helpful suggestions to misleading and even bizarre ...

• Author : Linda Wilmshurst
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release Date : 2017-03-03
• Total pages : 704
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : Written from a developmental perspective, Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is organized around five prominent and recurring themes: the course of normal development proceeds in an orderly and predictable direction; maladaptive behaviors represent deviations from the normal path; maladaptive behavior is represented by a continuum of severity (symptoms, syndromes, disorders) ...

• Author : Ronald Evens
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2007-08-14
• Total pages : 382
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : This book offers a complete discussion of product development in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries from discovery, to product launch, through life cycle management. The book is organized for optimal usefulness in the education and training of health care professionals (MD, PharmD, PhD), at universities. The format is a set ...

• Author : Douglas S. Diekema,Mark R. Mercurio,Mary B. Adam
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2011-09-08
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : This volume provides a practical overview of the ethical issues arising in pediatric practice. The case-based approach grounds the bioethical concepts in real-life situations, covering a broad range of important and controversial topics, including informed consent, confidentiality, truthfulness and fidelity, ethical issues relating to perinatology and neonatology, end-of-life issues, new ...

• Author : Yossi Levi-Belz,Yari Gvion,Alan Apter
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release Date : 2019-07-11
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : Suicide is a highly complex and multifaceted phenomenon, with many contributing and facilitating factors and variables. However, given its being one of the most severe human behaviors, an obvious focus would be to identify the underlying psychological mechanisms and processes that may lead to suicidal ideation and behavior. This eBook ...

• Author : Marilyn Wedge
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2011-03-28
• Total pages : 243
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : A persuasive rejection of mainstream child psychiatry that guides parents to understand their child's behavioral problems without stigmatizing diagnoses. With more than four million American children diagnosed with ADHD and other psychiatric disorders, taking a child to a psychiatrist is as common as taking them to soccer practice. But, disturbingly, ...

• Author : Stuart A. Kirk,Tomi Gomory,David Cohen
• Publisher : Transaction Publishers
• Release Date : 2013-04-12
• Total pages : 358
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : *Winner of an honorable mention from theSociety for Social Work and ResearchforOutstanding Social Work Book Award Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health research, including the remaking of coercion ...

• Author : Allen R. Dyer,Brandon A. Kohrt,Philip J. Candilis
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2021-05-22
• Total pages : 402
• ISBN : 0128004819

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Summary : This volume addresses gaps in the existing literature of global mental health by focusing on the ethical considerations that are implicit in discussions of health policy. In line with trends in clinical education around the world today, this text is explicitly designed to draw out the principles and values by ...