PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

Citation
Gs. Waterman et Nd. Ryan, PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS, School psychology review, 22(2), 1993, pp. 228-242
Citations number
49
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Educational
Journal title
ISSN journal
02796015
Volume
22
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
228 - 242
Database
ISI
SICI code
0279-6015(1993)22:2<228:PTODAA>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
There are strong similarities between child and adolescent forms of de pressive and anxiety disorders and their adult counterparts. Neverthel ess, in contrast to the literature regarding adult depression, control led studies using modern methodologies to examine the efficacy of both pharmacological and psychosocial treatments of these disorders are re latively rare. Current clinical practice bases pharmacological treatme nt decisions on these few studies, open clinical data in children and adolescents, and extrapolation from controlled studies in adults. Give n the small research base for pharmacological approaches, clinical pra ctice frequently employs psychosocial treatments prior to pharmacologi cal ones.