This book offers a warning that American children are receiving increased chemical treatment from psychiatrists and provides a primer on how to improve the emotional health of kids without drugs. "Maelstrom" is an apt metaphor for the inexorable deterioration many children experience inside the mental health system. Kids Caught in the Psychiatric Maelstrom: How Pathological Labels and "Therapeutic" Drugs Hurt Children and Families challenges current treatment practices and addresses the critically important issue of excessive prescribing of psychiatric medications to children. This encyclopedic work reveals "inside the system" information, emphasizing the theoretical divide at the root of the controversy over diagnosis and treatment. It explains how the 1990s, "decade of the brain" replaced talk therapy with biochemical treatments, leading to the hegemony of the pharmaceutical industry—and subsequently the massive drugging of children. Author Elizabeth E. Root details common diagnoses and treatments, explaining up-to-date brain research, with some surprising interpretations, and noting dangerous national precedents to mental screening. Finally, she illuminates pathways toward solutions and healthier families, sharing nonpsychiatric explanations for the nation's increase of troubled children and the rationale and research supporting non-drug, alternative approaches to childhood distress.

The second poetry collection by Ed Roberts, this book was originally distributed in PDF format burned onto CD's and shipped to at least five different countries. It along with Roberts's 3 other poetry collections were listed in the Sony E-book library. This was the first of his books to contain a special poem at the back of the book after which are posted several pages of comments people have left in the feedback section of his poetry site. These alone tell a powerful story of the impact that Roberts's poetry has had on the lives of people.

This is the fifth poetry collection written by Ed Roberts. His writing is influenced both by his long Oklahoman and Native American heritage as well as by national and international topics including cultural, political, and social issues. Different organizations refer people to his poetry web site to fight alcoholism, drug abuse, and terrorism. Many of the poems in this book were written and shared by people in at least five different countries and his poetry reaches across many different cultures as well. As with his previous books there is a special poem "The Words of Others" at the back of this book after which there are several pages of comments readers have left in the feedback section of his poetry web site. "There are times in all of our lives when we need special words; we call these words Poetry. Sometimes we all need to be reminded just how powerful these words truly are." Ed Roberts

This is the third poetry collection by Ed Roberts. The scope of the poems in this collection range from historical poems, poems dealing with the loss of family members, poems written while Roberts was in Amman, Jordan, and poems dealing with alcohol and drug abuse. Like his previous 2'nd editions this book also contains several pages of comments that were left by readers in the feedback section of his poetry site. "There are times in all of our lives when we need special words. We call these words Poetry. Sometimes these words can even be our own." Ed Roberts