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Converging evidence suggests that all of the major mental illnesses affecting adults also afflict children (Institute of Medicine, 1989) but research on child and adolescent mental disorders has generally lagged far behind studies of adult mental illnesses. These research gaps continue to exist for a variety of reasons, including difficulties recruiting child and adolescent subjects into research studies; wariness of the pharmaceutical industry about potential liability if wide-scale child-based pharmaceutical research were supported; lack of agreement among the lay public, professions, and various research disciplines about the appropriateness of classification and diagnoses in children and adolescents; insufficient research funding; and the special ethical challenges in conducting research with children and adolescents. These factors have together combined to limit research in this population, with the result that children have been described as “therapeutic orphans,” less likely than adults to reap the benefits of new knowledge on the safety and efficacy of various treatment alternatives.
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Jensen, P.S., Fisher, C.B., Hoagwood, K. (1999). Ethical Issues in Research with Children and Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorders. In: Quay, H.C., Hogan, A.E. (eds) Handbook of Disruptive Behavior Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4881-2_27
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