What are the pros and cons to giving psychiatric medication with young children?
What are the pros and cons to giving psychiatric medication with young children?
It is believed that mental illness medications are manufactured for adult patients and not yet approved by the FDA for a child’s consumption (Couric, 2007). On the contrast, it seems that these medications can have devastating side effects, negatively impacting the child’s health. Which can lead to other series of mental and health problems. Misdiagnoses can also deter the patient from receiving the proper treatment for the behaviors and problems they are displaying. In conclusion, receiving psychiatric medication can have devastating effects on children’s mental and health deuteration, or in some cases death. Like we learned in the case of Rebecca Riley.
On a positive note, these medications also seem to be helping some patients that suffer from mental disorders. These psychiatric medications can improve the children’s quality of life by treating the underlined problem(s) by improving their behavior.