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No Child Left Different (Hardcover)
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No Child Left Different (Hardcover)
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A stellar group of authors from across disciplines explains the
alarming increase in the use of psychotropic medications, questions
the causes, and presents disturbing thoughts regarding this
phenomenon and the risks it creates for children. They 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. And they
challenge the model that maintains that psychological disturbance
is genetic and thus requires medication. This is riveting reading
for all who care about the youngest members of society. 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. A stellar
group of authors from across disciplines explains this increase,
questions the causes, and presents 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. Contributors
range from a pediatrician who has testified before Congress and
been featured in a Time magazine cover story, to a top child
psychiatrist who is an official for the American Academy of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry, along with a well-known child
psychiatrist, psychologists, environmentalists, and a public policy
consultant. This is riveting reading for all who care about the
youngest members of society. Among other issues, this work looks at
controversy over whether psychiatric medications are safe or
effective for children-and what little we know about their effect
on still-developing brains-as well as the role of corporate
interests in the increased use of psychotropics for children.
Chapters address the role of environment in both causing and curing
disorders more and more often diagnosed in our youngsters: from
ADHD, depression, and anxiety to eating disorders. The core
questions addressed by this sage group of contributors are these:
Why are so many children being diagnosed with psychiatric
disturbances and given drugs? Why have drugs become the first
treatment of choice to deal with those disorders?
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