Drugging Our Children: How Profiteers Are Pushing Antipsychotics on Our Youngest, and What We Can Do to Stop It (Childhood in America)
• Offers solid facts about antipsychotic medication and effective therapeutic alternatives• Provides an ethical and legal roadmap for licensed psychologists and other non-MD mental health professionals seeking to protect children in their care from unnecessary and risky drugs• Gives parents effective tools to advocate more effectively on behalf of their children within the mental health system• A chapter on effective parenting coauthored by a leading parenting expert, Laura Berk• Contributions by noted medical journalist Robert Whitaker, author ofAnatomy of an Epidemic• Information on legal issues by Harvard-educated lawyer Jim Gottstein• Insights from former pharmaceutical industry insider, Gwen Olsen• An examination of community approaches to children's mental health care by internationally known psychologist Stuart Shanker