We Can Do Better: The Medication of Foster Children

Clinical Perspectives 4 (open)
We Can Do Better: The Medication of Foster Children

Tuesday, October 27, 2015: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Chair:

Edmund Levin, MD

Discussant:

Douglas A. Kramer, MD, MS

4.1

Addressing Behavioral Problems Related to Child Traumatic Stress Without Medication
Glenn N. Saxe, MD NYU Child Study Center, New York, NY

4.2

Patterns of Use of Psychotropic Medications Among Youth in Foster Care
Julie M. Zito, PhD University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

4.3

How Foster Children Pay the Price for Psychiatry's False Assumptions
Eric M. Plakun, MD Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA

4.4

How Shifting Our Paradigm and Practice Can Better Serve Foster Children
George Stewart, MD Seneca Center, Berkeley, CA