Mental health of children with learning disabilities

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 130-137

  Allington Smith, Pru ^a,b  

^a South Warwickshire National Health Service Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b Brooklands Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMOXETINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; LAXATIVE; MELATONIN; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE;

ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECREASED APPETITE; DEPRESSION; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPILEPSY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; GALACTORRHEA; GYNECOMASTIA; HEADACHE; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; INCREASED APPETITE; LEARNING DISORDER; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MUSIC THERAPY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSIS; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP THERAPY; SOCIAL WORK; STOMACH PAIN; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; TEAMWORK; UNITED KINGDOM; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 33644773318     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.12.2.130     Document Type: Article

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