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Direct linkShahidullah, Jeffrey D. – Communique, 2012
Psychotropic medications are increasingly used to treat children and adolescents with mental health conditions. Between the years 1994 and 2001, there was a 191.7% increase in number of office visits resulting in a psychotropic medication prescription among children and adolescents. Many drugs are prescribed to children "off-label", whereby they…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Mental Health, Children, Adolescents
Peer reviewedPierson, Eric E. – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in the number and types of psychopharmacological medications that are available for the treatment of depression in children and adolescents. Parents and adolescents often raise questions as to the potential increase in suicidal ideation associated with the use of primarily selective serotonin…
Descriptors: Suicide, Pharmacology, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology)
