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Helping Parents, Youth, and Teachers Understand Medications for Behavioral and Emotional Problems: A Resource Book of Medication Information Handouts
The information sheets published in this book are available as PDF files. Most computers have a Adobe's free PDF reader. If yours doesn't go to www.Adobe.com to download it.
Dr. Mina Dulcan's medication sheets from 2003 are informative, and only slightly dated. The files are organized by medication type, and the lists of associated medications may not include the newest medications on the market. Files can be saved on your computer or printed. This book was printed before the Food and Drug Administration required notices warning of rare "suicidal or self-injurious thoughts and behaviors" associated with certain medications (antidepressants, anticonvulsants, Strattera). FDA public advisories can be reviewed at www.FDA.gov. Other information about medications can be accessed on the Patient Education page.
Click here to see medication information oriented to Parents
Click here to see medication information oriented to Educators
Click here to see medication information oriented to Youth
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) mission is to reduce the burden of mental and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior. More information is available at the NIMH website. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) — The Nation’s Medical Research Agency — includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit the NIH website.
Follow this link to download the NIMH director's 2007 update on the subject of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, and this link to download the NIMH press release on the same subject.
Excerpts:
"A recently published research paper (September 2007, Archives of General Psychiatry) reported a 40-fold increase in the rate of diagnosing bipolar disorder in youth over the past decade.
This paper raises several important questions:
· Were physicians under-diagnosing bipolar disorder in the past?
· Are they over-diagnosing currently?
· Are more children developing behavioral disorders than in the past?
It is unclear exactly what is causing this increase, but current evidence suggests a combination of each of these and possibly other factors."
More research is needed to determine the safety and effectiveness of the many medications currently used to treat bipolar disorder in youth, as well as to identify other types of appropriate treatment.
The apparent inaccurate use of the bipolar diagnosis and questions about the safety and effectiveness of medications being prescribed to young children raise real concerns. These concerns need to be balanced by recognizing that psychiatric illnesses can cause disabling and sometimes dangerous symptoms during a critical period of physical and cognitive development, with many potential long-term effects for a child's future. Parents and physicians concerned about the risk of treatment need to consider the risks of not treating children who may have impulsive behaviors that can threaten themselves or others and make it difficult or impossible for the child to function well at home, at school or with peers.
Helping Traumatized Children Learn demonstrates how trauma from exposure to family and other forms of violence can help explain many educational difficulties teachers across the Commonwealth face everyday. Such difficulties include the inability of children to focus, understand instructions, form meaningful relationships with peers and teachers, and control their behavior in appropriate ways.
The report provides a school-wide flexible framework and a public policy agenda for creating trauma-sensitive school environments where traumatized children and their classmates can focus, behave, and learn.
