Psychiatria pre prax 2/2014

Pharmacotherapy of child and adolescent psychiatry

When you deploy pharmacotherapy in children you need to consider the following aspects: development, maturity, society and communication. The article discussed only pharmacotherapy medications although of course a treatment would include a combination of psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy and sociotherapy. Marginally there are mentioned findings in well-defined diagnostic units by imaging methods and practices supportive of some therapeutic procedures „off-label“.

Keywords: psychoactive drugs and their use „on and off label“ for specific diagnoses in child and adolescent psychiatry.