Treating the mentally ill
By: Kyla Stinnett, book editor.
Contributors: Stinnett, Kyla.
Series: At issue; At issue (San Diego, Calif.)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation; Mentally ill -- Treatment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-104) and index.
Table of contents: title: Antidepressants help millions of people / Sally Satel; title: Antidepressants may cause suicide and violent behavior in children and teenagers / Rob Waters; title: Physicians are prescribing powerful psychotropic drugs for everyday unhappiness / Ronald W. Dworkin; title: Medication and psychosocial treatment help many schizophrenic patients recover / National Institute of Mental Health; title: Medication may hinder recovery from schizophrenia / Robert Whitaker; title: Many children benefit from psychiatric medication / Vidya Bhushan Gupta; title: Doctors are overprescribing psychiatric medication to children / Lawrence H. Diller; title: Psychologists should be allowed to prescribe psychiatric drugs / Robert Sternberg; title: Psychologists should not be licensed to prescribe psychiatric drugs / Stephen Barrett; title: Talk therapy helps heal depression / Milton Hammerly; title: Electroconvulsive therapy is an effective treatment / Max Fink; title: Electroconvulsive therapy must be stopped / John Breeding; title: Involuntary treatment of the mentally ill is sometimes necessary / Rich Lowry; title: Involuntary treatment laws are dangerous / Douglas A. Smith; title: People with mental illnesses should not be imprisoned / Human Rights Watch.