No child left different
Subtitle: America's lost tolerance and the psychiatric overmedication of our kids
By: edited by Sharna Olfman ; foreword by Mel Levine.
Series: Childhood in America
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Pediatric psychopharmacology.; Behavior disorders in children -- Chemotherapy -- United States.; Child psychiatry -- Differential therapeutics -- United States.; Medication abuse -- United States.; Child Psychology -- United States.; Mental Disorders -- drug therapy -- Child -- United States.; Mental Disorders -- psychology -- Child -- United States.; Psychotropic Drugs -- therapeutic use -- Child -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The building blocks of children's mental health / Sharna Olfman; title: The dance of nature and nurture / Jane  M. Healy; title: Toxic world, troubled minds / Varda Burstyn and David Fenton; title: Media violence / John P. Murray; title: Child psychiatry, drugs, and the corporation / Michael Brody; title: The development of mentally healthy children / Stuart Shanker; title: Diagnosis, drugs and bipolar disorder in children / Daniel Burston; title: Running on ritalin / Lawrence Diller; title: Why medications aren't enough / Molly burke; title: Global girls, consumer culture, and eating disorders / Margo Maine.