Back to normal
Subtitle: why ordinary childhood behavior is mistaken for ADHD, bipolar disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
By: Enrico Gnaulati
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780807073346; 9780807073353
Subjects: Behavior disorders in children; Diagnosis
Description: Why are doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnosing healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions? Gnaulati examines the factors that have led to our current crisis, provides parents with information about symptoms that to a casual or untrained eye can mimic a psychiatric disorder, and gives parents of struggling children hope, perspective, and direction.

A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mad science and mad medicine; title: The rush to diagnose; title: Casualties of casual diagnosing; title: Abnormalizing boys; title: The normalcy of problem behavior; title: ADHD or childhood narcissism at the outer edges?; title: Bipolar disorder? or teenage storm and stress twenty-first-century style?; title: Autism spectrum? or a brainy, willful, introverted boy?; title: Parenting with authority.