The Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology reported that cognitive behavior therapy greatly improves symptoms in Bipolar adolescents when combined with pharmacotherapy. The SCCAP say's “Studies indicate that individual/family- and group-based formats of child- and family-focused CBT (CFF-CBT), a manual-based model that incorporates the treatment methods described above, resulted in improved PBD symptoms and psychosocial functioning among youth.” Therefore, since CBT does improve Bipolar symptoms in children, it may be possibly, over …show more content…
Biederman, J.) Again, this bring us back to one of the major problems addressed in The Medicated Child. Psychiatric's stated that many of the medications used to treat adolescents with Bipolar Disorder were only tested on adults, which leads to the discussion of is is ethical to test such medications on children. Psychologist go around and around on this issue, but in the big picture, these drugs must be tested somehow or we cannot use