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September 28, 2015
by Agnes Oh, PsyD, LMFT

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California Reforms to Curb Excessive Use of Psychotropic Medications on Foster Youth: A Breaking New Initiative

September 28, 2015 07:55 by Agnes Oh, PsyD, LMFT   [About the Author]

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After three years of joining efforts with more than 100 high-level health care professionals, attorneys, foster youth/caregivers/advocates, and the Department of Social Services, California has unveiled a sweeping set of guidelines aimed at cracking down on the overuse of psychiatric medication in foster care (de Sá, April 2015). The exhaustive efforts began in 2012 and have given birth to the new proposed measures which recently passed the Senate and are now in the Assembly to be finalized (de Sá, July 2015). [More]