Psychotropic medication use among adolescents participating in three randomized trials of DBT

ConclusionsHighly prevalent in use among suicidal and self-harming adolescents with borderline features, psychotropic medication was still very unevenly prescribed across trials, differences not explained by differences in sample characteristics suggesting that current treatment practices are not fully empirically supported. We call for continued medical education and increased availability of evidence-based psychosocial interventions.
Source: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research