No child left different [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Sharna Olfman; foreword by Mel Levine

• Pubblicazione: Westport, CT, : Praeger Publishers, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.92; 618.92/89
• Soggetto topico: Pediatric psychopharmacology; Behavior disorders in children - Chemotherapy - United States; Child psychiatry - Differential therapeutics - United States; Medication abuse - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: OlfmanSharna
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-226) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Foreword; Foreword; 1 Introduction; Part I: Environments Matter; 2 The Building Blocks of Children's Mental Health: Care and Community; 3 The Dance of Nature and Nurture: How Environment Impacts Brain Development and Genetic Expression; 4 Toxic World, Troubled Minds; 5 Media Violence: The Drug of Choice for Young Males; Part II: Medical Remodel; 6 Child Psychiatry, Drugs, and the Corporation; 7 The Development of Mentally Healthy Children; 8 Diagnosis, Drugs, and Bipolar Disorder in Children; Part III: Pathologies of Normalcy ; 9 The Rise of Ritalin: Triumph and Tragedy of the Medical Model in Children's Mental Health10 Why Medications Are Not Enough: Looking More Deeply at Depression and Anxiety in Children; 11 Global Girls, Consumer Culture, and Eating Disorders; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z; About the Editor and the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 t
• Titolo autorizzato: No child left different
• ISBN: 1-282-40789-9; 9786612407895; 0-313-04195-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451585103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Childhood in America.