4205.0 Invited Session: Psychopharmacology Treatment with Youth: the Roles of the Child Welfare System, Foster Care, Insurance, Prescriber Specialty, and Comorbidities

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 12:30 PM
Oral
This session will feature leaders in the field of pharmacotherapy research presenting their work related to youth, with an emphasis on youth in foster care.
Session Objectives: After attending, learners will be able to identify challenges in pharmacotherapy for children and adolescents, including access barriers, and problems with treatment initiation, adherence and care continuity, and to strategize about ways to improve care delivery.
Moderator:
Gregory Aarons, PhD

12:30 PM
Invited Session: Psychopharmacology Treatment with Youth: The Roles of the Child Welfare System, Foster Care, Insurance, Prescriber Specialty, and Comorbidities
Michael K. Ong, MD PhD
  
12:50 PM
Problematic Prescription Drug Use by Adolescents
Linda Simoni-Wastila, PhD
  
1:10 PM
Geographic Variation in Psychotropic Medication Use among Children in the Child Welfare System
Ramesh Raghavan, MD, PhD
  
1:30 PM
Effects of Race/Ethnicity on Patterns of Psychotropic Medication Use Among A National Sample of Youth in Child Welfare
Laurel Leslie, MD, PhD
  

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Mental Health
Endorsed by: Medical Care, Socialist Caucus

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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