The science and pseudoscience of children's mental health
Subtitle: cutting edge research and treatment
By: Sharna Olfman, editor
Series: Childhood in America; Childhood in America
Publisher: Praeger an imprint of ABC-CIO, LLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781440830839; 9781440830846
Subjects: Child; Mental Disorders
Description: "This book explains how studies in brain development and epigenetics -- the inextricable interplay of genes and environment -- have led to breakthroughs in the understanding of children's psychological disturbances and serve to discredit the scientifically unsupported "chemical imbalance theory" of mental illness"--Provided by publisher.