Violent kids, violent parents: family pharmacotherapy.
Violence runs in families, as does lithium-responsiveness. These conditions, which may be concurrent, must be sought in families of violent manic-depressive youngsters. An illustrative case history is presented, in which the child is the identified patient--not only psychologically, but pharmacologically as well--who brings his family, and specifically his father, into much needed treatment.
D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000187:drug effects*; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008094:Lithium / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016651:Lithium Carbonate; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence
D016651:Lithium Carbonate; D008094:Lithium