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After watching the PBS Frontline film "The Medicated Child," please answer the following questions:  ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/medicatedchild/ ) 

  1.  What are your initial thoughts and feelings after watching this film?  2.  When (if ever) do you feel it is appropriate for a child to take psychiatric medications- at what age and in which situations? 3.  Although you do not make decisions or specific recommendations on psychiatric medications for your clients, what can you do as a therapist working with children and their parents in order to better prepare them to make these decisions? 4.  What are the pros and cons of taking psychiatric medications?