Disorder of Infancy and Childhood: A Review

During the last decade, a substantial scientific base has been established for psychopharmacology of adult patients. Diagnostic precision for treatment has been facilitated by the continuing revision of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders. The increasing confidence with the data thus generated regarding psychotropic drugs has also increased attention to child and adolescent psychotropic drugs in child and adolescent population have been conducted despite their frequent use. This review will focus on three diagnostic whose primary treatment is medication-attention deflect hyperactivity disorder, functional enuresis, and Tourette’s disorder. Using psychotropic drugs to treat children and adolescents often requires a very different approach than when the same drugs are used for psychiatric disorders among adults. Most adults given psychotropic drugs suffer from major and major depression. Despite well-defined diagnostic criteria, many children are given psychotropic drugs merely to control a group of symptoms or behavior in order to facilitate the child’s learning and development. The psychiatric assessment of a child requires obtaining information from the child, the parents or caretakers, and teachers.