Lithium is Clearly Underutilized in Child Psychiatry

Lithium is Clearly Underutilized in Child Psychiatry.

Correspondence To the Editor: Frederick Goodwin, an influential figure in bipolar mood disorder, famously said, if you can't, or you won't use lithium, get out from the business of treating bipolar disorders! Lithium remains the gold standard treatment of bipolar mood disorder. But, sorely, it is underutilized in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, despite Food and Drug Administration's approval for a...

Child Psychiatry

Child Psychiatry

This is the first real volume to deal specifically with the psychiatry of children. There have been many volumes dealing with the mental hygiene of childhood, books that have had merit and value but which have lacked that appeal to make them of real practical value to the pediatrician. In his preface to this volume, Park strikes the keynote of the work in his statement that it "leads the pediat...

Child Psychiatry

Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, and Director, Children's Psychiatry Service, The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Oxford. Second Edition. Blackwell Scientific Publications. 752 pp. 45s. Students of child guidance, of whatever professional discipline, are usually told that there is at present no satisfactory comprehensive text-book on Child Psychiatry. At firs...

Risperidone in Child Psychiatry

Some children benefit greatly from atypical antipsychotics. In some cases, their use markedly improves these children‘s relational and developmental prognosis. The indications for use also include, as is well-known, non-psychotic diagnoses such as: Borderline Personality Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, manic states, and mood swings. This article is the fruit of clinical experience with o...