Journal article
Antidepressant Treatments in Children and Adolescents: II. Anxiety, Physical, and Behavioral Disorders
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, v 32(3), pp 483-493
1993
PMID: 8496110
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Abstract
Part II of this review critically evaluates antidepressants' (AD) efficacy in children and adolescents with anxiety, physical, and behavioral disorders as well as AD's side-effect spectrum. AD are administered increasingly to youths with specific anxiety syndromes phenomenologically paralleling those in adults which are responsive to AD (e.g., panic, obsessive-compulsive disorders). While several trials have not substantiated earlier theoretical considerations suggesting their usefulness in separation anxiety, their recent success in ameliorating obsessive-compulsive symptoms is encouraging. Systematic drug treatment studies however are limited because of the common overlap of anxiety syndromes with each other and other prominent psychiatric disturbances. More consistent benefits with AD are seen in the physical (e.g., enuresis, bulimia nervosa) and behavioral disorders (e.g., attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder). The wide-ranging benefits of AD in nonaffective disorders suggest AD are more appropriately viewed as broad spectrum pharmacotherapeutics.
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- Title
- Antidepressant Treatments in Children and Adolescents: II. Anxiety, Physical, and Behavioral Disorders
- Creators
- PAUL J. Ambrosini - York College of PennsylvaniaMICHAEL D. Bianchi - York College of PennsylvaniaHARRIS Rabinovich - York College of PennsylvaniaJOSEPHINE Elia - York College of Pennsylvania
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, v 32(3), pp 483-493
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1993KY44100001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0027241206
- Other Identifier
- 991019183953704721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Psychology, Developmental