title: The management of the hyperactive child: an overview.
abstract: Hyperkinesis has been increasingly recognized as a medical problem of great significance in everyday practice. Not infrequently, a child has been labeled hyperkinetic at an early age, with a battery of tests, psychological evaluations and multiple medications, in addition to the family frustration and anxiety that follow the diagnosis of hyperkinesis of the offspring.
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D006948:Hyperkinesis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy