Abstract
This article examines the limited literature available on the treatment of homicidal children and adolescents. Various methods of treatment for this population are reviewed including psychotherapy, psychiatric hospitalization, institutional placement, and psychopharmacologic agents. The body of research on homicidal youths is progressing very slowly, and definitive treatments and prognostic data in this heterogeneous population are for the most part lacking.
Footnotes
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Presented in part for the symposium “Capital Crime and Capital Punishment in Minors” at the 1990 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in New York, May 12–17, 1990. Dr. Myers, is Assistant Professor, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Box J-234, JHMHC University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610.
- Copyright © 1991, The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
