Psychotropic Medication Use and Perceptions of Medication Effects Among Transition-Age Foster Youth.
The prevalence of psychotropic medication use among children and adolescents in foster care has received increasing attention from policymakers and scholars and led to responses from government. Most research has focused on school-age foster children; less is known about psychotropic medication use...
| Publicado en: | Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal Vol. 36; no. 6; pp. 583 - 598 |
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Dec2019
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