Your child in the balance
Subtitle: an insider's guide to the psychiatric medicine dilemma
By: Kevin T. Kalikow.
Publisher: CDS Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781593153595
Subjects: Pediatric psychopharmacology -- Evaluation -- Popular works; Behavior therapy for children -- Evaluation -- Popular works; Child psychiatry -- Differential therapeutics -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction the "can do age" of psychiatry; title: The challenge of change; title: The elusive criteria for changing your body; title: Bring on the brain; title: Psychiatry welcomes the brain; title: Duty to treat; title: The challenge of children; title: The evolving diagnoses of children; title: The burden of proof; title: The benefits of medicine; title: Let's be practical; title: The risks of medicine; title: Subtle psychological side effects; title: Concealed consequences; title: Medicine's competition; title: To be a parent00; title: The pressures on the prescriber; title: Too many prescriptions?; title: Rosie; title: The time is now; title: Appendix: is he wise if he tries the SSRIs?; title: Acknowledgments.