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Brown, Ronald T. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2006
This article provides a review of various psychotropic agents employed for children and adolescents with externalizing disorders. With the exception of the stimulants, clinical use of psychotropic medications for children with externalizing disorders far exceeds the available empirical literature. Further, there are insufficient data pertaining to…
Descriptors: Pharmacology, Children, Adolescents, Psychotherapy
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Sweeney, Dwight P.; Forness, Steven R.; Kavale, Kenneth A.; Levitt, Jennifer G. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1997
Discusses the potential uses and abuses of psychopharmacologic therapy with children or adolescents who display learning, emotional, or behavioral disorders. Explores the indications and contraindications of such therapy and enumerates the known side effects of the most frequently prescribed medications, including psychostimulants,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Children, Drug Therapy