Systematic research and practice guidelines addressing preschool psychopharmacological
treatment in very young children are limited, despite evidence of increasing clinical use of …

Bipolar disorder (BPD), probably the most prevalent psychotic disorder in adults, has been
relatively neglected or controversial in children and adolescents over the past century. We …

Page 1 Supplement to THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY Official Journal of the
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION Volume 159 Number 4 April 2002 PRACTICE for the …

Clinicians who treat children and adolescents with bipolar disorder desperately need current
treatment guidelines. These guidelines were developed by expert consensus and a review …

TIONS antipsychotic is sometimes necessary [II]. Severely ill or agitated patients may also
require short-term adjunctive treatment with a benzodiazepine [I]. When first-line medication …

OBJECTIVE: To develop effect sizes for 3 mood stabilizers-lithium, divalproex sodium, and
carbamazepine-for the acute-phase treatment of bipolar I or II disorder, mixed or manic …

Objective: There has been limited research on anxiety in pediatric bipolar disorder (BPD).
Adult BPD studies suggest comorbid anxiety disorders are common and impact treatment …

Objective: Although available data suggest that bipolar disorder most commonly begins in
adolescence, it has often been underrecognized and misdiagnosed in this age group. The …

Adult type major affective disorders in children have recently received a great deal of clinical
and research interest. The preliminary evidence being generated tends to support the …

Ten consecutive severely ill child and adolescent inpatients (aged 6–15 years), who had
either multiple trials of typical neuroleptics and antimanic agents with inadequate symptom …