Children's Medication Toolbox

This book does not debate whether medication should be used with a child. Many children receive medication and in those cases they monitoring and measurement of the effects is beneficial. A related downloadable software program from DCC Publishing (www.dccpub.com) provides computer tools needed to make the process easy and useful.

Despite love, support and guidance there are many children with impairing developmental, neurological, emotional and/or behavioral states that threaten the child’s positive family development, participation in normative environments or otherwise threaten developmental progress. In many cases these conditions can be improved and their negative effects reduced with the thoughtful use of medications. This book provides instructions and directions how to more clearly define, monitor and measure changes that occur during any form of treatment. Pharmacological treatment of a child is best achieved through a collaborative effort between the prescribing clinician and a parent or guardian. These methods and associated software applications have been developed by DCC Publishing and the Child Psychopharmacology Institute (CPI).

Bill is a clinical neuroscientist, author of The Children's Medication Toolbox: Managing, Monitoring and Improving Your Child's Response to Medication (to be Published fall 2015); Smart Parenting: A Guide to Child Assessment and Therapeutic Interventions, the chapter, "Pharmacological Neuromodulation of Autism Spectrum Disorders", in the 2012 book, Pharmacology, edited by Luca Gallelli and other peer reviewed journal articles related to the treatment of neuropsychiatric and emotional disorders in children. He is also the author of the Systematic Observation Scale ™ and the evolving modules of the CPI Treatment Measurement and Monitoring System.