4.4 Considering the Meaning of the Medication for Families and Clinicians

The objective of this presentation is to describe clinical approaches to integrating medications into a comprehensive treatment plan, with attention to how explanatory models of child emotional and behavioral problems may influence family decision making. Family-centered treatment planning requires attention to the meaning that families make of their child ’s symptoms and to the treatments as well as an awareness of clinicians’ attributions to the medications. Studies of how families make meaning of preschool mental health concerns are limited, but demonstrate a wide variety, including related to personality, behavioral, and a medical model, with some patterns related to the cultural background of the caregivers.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research