Psychiatric Drugs in Children and Adolescents

• Essential neuro-psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific basis.- Characteristics of the neuro-psychotropic drug therapy in childhood and adolescence.- Comments on the pharmacotherapy in the outpatient setting.- Comments on the pharmacotherapy of mental disorders in children and adolescents with mental handicap.- General aspects and particularities of emergency pharmacotherapy in children and adolescents.- Classes of neuro-psychiatric treatment: Antidepressants.- Antiepileptics (Anticonvulsants).- Anxiolytics/tranquilisers and hypnotics.- Neuroleptics (antipsychotics).- Psychostimulants.- Mood stabilizers.- Symptomatic and symptom-focused drug therapy of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence: aggressive and auto-aggressive behavior, impulse control disorders, conduct disorders.- Alcohol related disorders.- Anxiety disorders and phobias.- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).- Autistic disorders (Pervasive developmental disorders, ICD-10 F84).- Depression.- Drug and substance related disorders.- Encopresis (IDC-10 F98.1).- Enuresis and functional urinary continence (F98.0).- Epilepsy.- Eating disorders (F50.0).- Manic episodes (F30) and bipolar affective disorder (F31).- Elective (selective) mutism (F94.0).- Personality disorders (F60, F61).- Schizophrenia, schizotype and delusional disorders (ICD-10 F20).- Sleep disorder.- Tic disorders (ICD-10 F95).- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in childhood and adolescence.- Appendix: Examples of documented patient education.​

From the book reviews: "The audience includes child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, pediatricians, general practitioners, nurses, and students of medicine and pharmacology. Mental health workers, social workers, and teachers working with children and adolescents with mental illness also could use it as a reference. ... With its research-based, current information, it is a very useful tool for practitioners in the U.S. and Europe." (Rosario M. Cosme, Doody's Book Reviews, December, 2014)