RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 What Treatments Do We Have for Children and Adolescents Who Have Killed?
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 47
OP 58
VO 20
IS 1
A1 Myers, Wade C.
YR 1992
UL http://jaapl.org/content/20/1/47.abstract
AB 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.