J. Jay Fruehling

Pharmacotherapy for Depression in Children and Adolescents

Knowledge in child psychiatry is generated primarily from two sources, systematic research and clinical practice. These two activities create different kinds of knowledge that are collected and communicated in distinct ways. Research-generated knowledge tends to be gathered at academic institutions and is disseminated largely through articles in scientific journals, meeting presentations, and textbooks. Clinical knowledge is amassed through practice and experience and tends to be imparted through “hands-on” training activities. Much of psychiatry in general, and child psychiatry in particular, is taught via an apprenticeship model, largely to facilitate the transfer of clinical knowledge across generations of physicians.