December 09, 2010 - Are you a foster care child taking multiple medications for mental or behavior problems? Are you a foster parent frustrated with the amount of medication prescribed for the children in your care?
ABC News is looking to speak with current and former foster children of all ages who were prescribed psychotropic drugs while in the system. What were your experiences? Did the medications help or make life worse? How should the system be changed?
- About FYA
- Who We Are
- What We Do
- FYA’s Current & Recent Projects
- FYA News
- Publications
- Alameda County AB 12 Homeless Youth Demonstration Project
- 2012-13 Children’s Policy Forums
- Journey to Change 2010: Navigating with Power & Purpose
- Journey to Change 2012: Rising Above & Realizing Our Full Potential
- Bulletin Archive
- Latest Bulletin
- Foster Care Issues and Policy
- Get Involved
- For Youth
Dear Alameda County Foster Youth Alliance:
I have never been in foster care, but as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist I have been especially interested in their treatment and with what I see as a pattern of their being over diagnosed and over medicated. With in the past 2 years I have written 3 articles dealing with issue. Two have been published and 1 will be in print next month.
The articles are referenced below. Should you be interested, I would be pleased to hear from you.
Yours,
ed
________________
Edmund C. Levin, M.D.
2424 Dwight Way, #2
Berkeley, CA 94704
Office: (510) 548-1655
_________________
•Levin, E.C.: The Challenges of Treating Developmental Trauma Disorder in a Residential Agency for Youth. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 37:3, 2009, p. 519-538.
•Levin, E.C.: Book Review: “Is You Child Bipolar” Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 38:2,2010, p. 371-3.
•Parry, P.I., Levin, E.C.: Conflict of Interest as a Pollible Factor in the Rise of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder. To be published in Adolescent Psychiatry, 1:1, Jan 2011.