Release Date: April 1, 2025 / Termination Date: March 31, 2028

Episode Transcript

Featured Guest: Megan O’Connell, PharmD, BCPP

Objectives

• Review the use of SSRIs for management of various anxiety disorders in pediatric patients.
• Review the use of SNRIs for the management of various anxiety disorders in pediatric patients.
• Apply the use of benzodiazepines for the acute management of anxiety.
• Apply the use of other non-benzodiazepine as needed medications for anxiety including hydroxyzine.

Resources

• Practical Psychopharmacology Translating Findings From Evidence-Based Trials into Real-World Clinical Practice. (Cambridge University Press)
• Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications. (4th edition) (Cambridge University Press)
• Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide. (5th ed.). (Cambridge University Press)
• Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber's Guide Children and Adolescents. (1st edition) Cambridge University Press.

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