Teachers and Psychopharmacology

Abstract

Educators at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital and Inpatient School, Los Angeles, CA, and the Division of Special Education, University of Iowa, I0, discuss the issues in child psychopharmacology that are of importance to teachers and stress the need for greater interdisciplinary collaboration between the medical profession and the schools.

Keywords

• adverse classroom effects
• stimulant medications
• major tranquilizers