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Attitudes of child psychiatrists to electroconvulsive therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ranjana Parmar
Ranjana Parmar*
Affiliation:
Child And Adolescent Psychiatry, West Midlands Regional Health Authority
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has long been recognised as an important method of treatment in adult psychiatric disorders, especially severe depression. However, in spite of increasing concern about the occurrence of depressive disorders among the young (Klerman, 1988), very little is known about the use of ECT in children and adolescents. Indeed the published literature on ECT in this age group consists almost entirely of case reports (Bertagnoli & Borchardt, 1990). This paper is concerned with an important determinant of such practice, the attitudes of child and adolescent psychiatrists.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 12 - 13
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1993

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