No Child Left Different

Over the past 15 years, there has been a 300 percent increase in the use of psychotropic medications with girls and boys under the age of 20, and prescriptions for preschoolers have skyrocketed. Authors from across disciplines explain this increase, question the causes, and present disturbing thoughts regarding this phenomenon as they describe the risks it creates for children. While there are certainly extreme cases where drugs are the only option, medication rather than psychotherapy and counseling has become the first choice for treatment rather than a last resort. The experts who joined forces for this book take an in-depth look at the conditions that have led to "drugging our children," and stress how emotional, social, cultural, and physical environments can both damage and heal young minds. The so-called medical model, one maintaining that psychological disturbance is genetic and thus requires medication, is challenged in this volume. – from publisher description.

Yayınevi

Rowman & Littlefield Education

Yayın tarihi

2008

Sayfa sayısı

260

Dil

İngilizce

ISBN

9781578867745 · 1578867746

Konular

Behavior disorders in children, Chemotherapy, Child, Child psychiatry, Child psychology, Differential therapeutics, Drug therapy, Medication abuse