‘Pre-schoolers taking anxiety meds’

Some pre-school children are being prescribed medication to treat anxiety and stress, a child psychotherapist has claimed.

Gayle Kearney said more children were being dispensed medication from a very young age as they were finding it so hard to cope.

A play therapist and counsellor, Ms Kearney was one of the speakers at a conference for special education needs hosted by a charity, Sensation Kids, in Dublin yesterday.