Psychotropic prescriptions in a sample including both healthy and mood and disruptive disordered preschoolers: Relationships to diagnosis, impairment, prescriber type, and assessment methods

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-215

  Luby, Joan L ^a   Stalets, Melissa Meade ^a   Belden, Andy C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LITHIUM; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34249717712     PISSN: 10445463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cap.2007.0023     Document Type: Article

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