InhaltsangabeEssential neuro-psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific basis.- Characteristics of the neuro-psychotropic drug therapy in childhood and adolescence.- Comments on the pharmacotherapy in the outpatient setting.- Comments on the pharmacotherapy of mental disorders in children and adolescents with mental handicap.- General aspects and particularities of emergency pharmacotherapy in children and adolescents.- Classes of neuro-psychiatric treatment: Antidepressants.- Antiepileptics (Anticonvulsants).- Anxiolytics/tranquilisers and hypnotics.- Neuroleptics (antipsychotics).- Psychostimulants.- Mood stabilizers.- Symptomatic and symptom-focused drug therapy of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence: aggressive and auto-aggressive behavior, impulse control disorders, conduct disorders.- Alcohol related disorders.- Anxiety disorders and phobias.- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).- Autistic disorders (Pervasive developmental disorders, ICD-10 F84).- Depression.- Drug and substance related disorders.- Encopresis (IDC-10 F98.1).- Enuresis and functional urinary continence (F98.0).- Epilepsy.- Eating disorders (F50.0).- Manic episodes (F30) and bipolar affective disorder (F31).- Elective (selective) mutism (F94.0).- Personality disorders (F60, F61).- Schizophrenia, schizotype and delusional disorders (ICD-10 F20).- Sleep disorder.- Tic disorders (ICD-10 F95).- Obsessive-compulsive disorder in childhood and adolescence.- Appendix: Examples of documented patient education.