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Article: Social workers' attitudes about psychotropic drug treatment with youths.
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- Social Work
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Given the precipitous rise in psychotropic drug use with youths in recent years (for example, Rushton & Whitmire, 2001; Zito et al., 2003), nearly every social worker practicing with youths has worked with a medicated child or adolescent. Despite the controversies and concerns this trend has generated (see, for example, Ingersoll, Bauer, & Burns, 2004; Moses & Kirk, 2005), we know very little about social workers' attitudes toward this trend. This is unfortunate because social workers provide the largest proportion of mental health services in the United States (Gibelman & Schervish, 1997; Knowlton, 1995), and their attitudes are likely to affect how they broker clients' ...
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