Suffer the children
Subtitle: the case against labeling and medicating and an effective alternative
By: Marilyn Wedge
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; W.W. Norton
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780393071597
Subjects: Unnecessary Procedures; Child Behavior Disorders; Child Psychiatry; Methods; Child; Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Trends; Family psychotherapy; Therapy; Adverse effects; Psychotropic Drugs; Child psychotherapy; Family Therapy
Description: A family therapist presents an alternative to giving children psychotropic medications for a variety of mental disorders and discusses creative strategies for viewing "disorders" as responses to relationships that can be altered with the help of a therapist.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond psychiatric labels : what stories tell us; title: A new frame : strategic child-focused family therapy; title: Listening to children; title: Metaphor; title: Invisible alliances; title: Reading by not reading : the power of paradox; title: Medication : the promise and the peril; title: Threshold kids : a passage in search of a rite; title: From biology to benevolence.