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What Input Do Community-Based Psychiatrists Need from Staff and Families of Our Consumers?
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Lepler, Steven; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1994
This rebuttal by the original authors to a critique (EC 609 029) of their article describing the TAPER psychotropic drug review process supports the process as an individualized approach to psychotropic drug treatment and as an interdisciplinary approach appropriate for use in community-based services for individuals with developmental…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Drug Therapy, Institutionalized Persons
Interdisciplinary Team Review of Psychotropic Drug Use in Community Settings.
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Kastner, Theodore A.; Walsh, Kevin – Mental Retardation, 1994
This response to a description of a psychotropic drug review process, TAPER, suggests that the data supporting the reported low rate and dosage level of psychotropic drug use resulting from the process were misleading and inaccurate. Implications of such a drug review process for facilities serving people with developmental disabilities are drawn.…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Drug Therapy, Incidence