No Child Left Different

by Olfman, Sharna; Levine, Mel; Healy, Jane M.; Burstyn, Varda; Fenton, David; Murray, John P.; Brody, Michael; Shanker, Stuart G.; Burston, Daniel; Diller, Lawrence; Burke, Mary; Maine, Margo D.

• ISBN13: 9781578867745
• ISBN10: 1578867746
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-21
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

The past fifteen years have seen a 300 percent increase in the use of psychotropic medications for girls and boys under the age of twenty, and prescriptions for preschoolers have skyrocketed. A stellar group of authors from across several disciplines explains this increase, questions the causes, and presents disturbing thoughts regarding this phenomenon, analyzing the risks medication creates for children. While there are certainly extreme cases where drugs are the only option, medication, rather than psychotherapy and counseling, has transformed from last resort to the first choice for treatment. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Series Foreword	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Environments Matter	p. 15
The Building Blocks of Children's Mental Health: Care and Community	p. 17
The Dance of Nature and Nurture: How Environment Impacts Brain Development and Genetic Expression	p. 31
Toxic World, Troubled Minds	p. 49
Media Violence: The Drug of Choice for Young Males	p. 73
Medical Remodel	p. 89
Child Psychiatry, Drugs, and the Corporation	p. 91
The Development of Mentally Healthy Children	p. 107
Diagnosis, Drugs, and Bipolar Disorder in Children	p. 121
Pathologies of Normalcy	p. 141
The Rise of Ritalin: Triumph and Tragedy of the Medical Model in Children's Mental Health	p. 143
Why Medications Are Not Enough: Looking More Deeply at Depression and Anxiety in Children	p. 163
Global Girls, Consumer Culture, and Eating Disorders	p. 179
Notes	p. 193
Index	p. 227
About the Editor and the Contributors	p. 233
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