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Adolescent Experience of Psychotropic Treatment

Jerry Floersch

Case Western Reserve University, jerry.floersch{at}case.edu

Lisa Townsend

Case Western Reserve University

Jeffrey Longhofer

Case Western Reserve University

Michelle Munson

Case Western Reserve University

Victoria Winbush

Smith College School of Social Work

Derrick Kranke

Case Western Reserve University

Rachel Faber

Case Western Reserve University

Jeremy Thomas

Case Western Reserve University

Janis H. Jenkins

University of California, San Diego

Robert L. Findling

Case Western Reserve University

Despite growing concern over the treatment of adolescents with psychiatric medications, little research has examined youth understandings and interpretations of mental illness and psychotropic treatment. This article reports the exploratory findings of semi-structured and open-ended interviews carried out with 20 adolescents diagnosed with one or more psychiatric disorders, and who were currently prescribed psychiatric medications. Grounded theory coding procedures were used to identify themes related to adolescent subjective experience with psychiatric medications. The categories identified are interpreted as different points of view through which adolescents understand and take action upon their illness concerns; their need for medication treatment; their perceptions of how medications work; their responses to parental and other influences upon medication treatment; and, their everyday management activities.

Key Words: adolescent • medication management • psychiatric medication • qualitative research • subjective experience

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 46, No. 1, 157-179 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1363461509102292
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