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Pediatric Psychopharmacology: Principles and Practice
edited by Andrés Martin, MD, MPH, Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD, Dennis S. Charney, MD, James F. Leckman, MD, 736 pp, with black-and-white illus, ISBN 0-19-514173-3, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2003.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:1035-1036.
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Pediatricians are increasingly called on to treat mental health issues related to children and adolescents, particularly to prescribe psychopharmacologic medications. Although an initiative within the American Academy of Pediatrics emphasizes this topic, it remains an undeveloped area in pediatric residency training. Pediatricians often find themselves inadequately equipped to treat patients with complex psychopathologic symptoms. Child psychiatrists are in short supply, and making a referral can take up to several weeks or months.
In the preface to this volume, Drs Martin, Scahill, Charney, and Leckman articulate their intent to "propose an integrated model that places psychopharmacology as but one (albeit a powerful one) among the many tools available for the treatment of psychiatrically ill children and adolescents." The book brings together our best current understanding of relevant neurobiological and pharmacologic treatment for a broad range of childhood mental disorders and should be highly useful to pediatricians as well as child psychiatrists. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Christopher K. Varley, MD, Reviewer
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
Box 359300/CL-08
Seattle, WA 98195
Ileana Calinoiu, MD, Reviewer
Seattle
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