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The use of antidepressants by British child psychiatrists
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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The controversy concerning psychotropic drug use in children has waged over several decades. The recent trend in treatment has moved towards problem-orientated, eclectic and flexible approaches to disturbed children and their families, away from specific “pure” therapy models. Erstwhile over-use of medication in certain conditions, for example psycho-stimulants in hyperactive children in the USA (Werry et al (1980), has handicapped the development of paediatric psychopharmacology.
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