Treatment of ADHD with amphetamine: short-term effects on family interaction.

Objective: This research seeks to study the impact on family function after 3 months of treatment with amphetamine.

Method: A total of 43 children, 6 to 11 years of age, with ADHD were treated with amphetamine for 3 months. Family function was studied before and after treatment by parent self-rating and independent observer ratings of videotaped parent-child interactions.

Illuminating patients with children up to 18 years of age--a 1-day-inventory study in a psychiatric service.

This study reports the possibility of accomplishing a survey in an ordinary psychiatric service organization to identify the children and the adolescents in families with a parent with mental illness and to highlight the number of patients in psychiatric treatment with little or virtually no contact with their minor children. The prevalence of patients being parents to minor children was 36% in the total sample consisting of 137 patients, from both inpatient and outpatient services, participating in the survey. Three of four patients were living together with the children.