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Title Drugging our children : how profiteers are pushing antipsychotics on our youngest, and what we can do to stop it / Sharna Olfman and Brent Dean Robbins, editors.

Publication Info. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2012]
©2012

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  618.9289 D794D    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Childhood in America
Childhood in America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. I. Drugging our children : the problem -- 1. Weighing the evidence : what science has to say about prescribing atypical antipsychotics to children / Robert Whitaker -- 2. From ice pick lobotomies to antipsychotics as sleep aids for children : a historical perspective / Brent Dean Robbins -- 3. Drugging our children : a culture that has lost its compass / Sharna Olfman -- 4. The marketing of madness and psychotropic drugs to children / Gwen Olsen -- pt. II. Drugging our children : ethical and legal considerations -- 5. Pediatric antipsychotics : a call for ethical care / Jacqueline A. Sparks and Barry L. Duncan -- 6. Legal issues surrounding the psychiatric drugging of children and youth / Jim Gottstein -- pt. III. Drugging our children : solutions -- 7. Drug-free mental health care for children and youth : lessons from residential treatment / Tony Stanton -- 8. Strategic family therapy as an alternative to antipsychotics / George Stone -- 9. How parents can improve their children's developmental trajectories / Adena B. Meyers and Laura E. Berk -- 10. Building healthy minds : it takes a village / Stuart Shanker -- Afterword / Sharna Olfman.
Subject Pediatric psychopharmacology.
Adolescent psychopharmacology.
Child mental health.
Antipsychotic drugs.
Antipsychotic Agents -- United States.
Adolescent -- United States.
Child -- United States.
Drug Industry -- ethics -- United States.
Mental Disorders -- drug therapy -- United States.
Mental Health -- United States.
Psychopharmacology -- methods -- United States.
Added Author Olfman, Sharna.
Robbins, Brent Dean.
ISBN 9780313396830 hardcopy alkaline paper
0313396833 hardcopy alkaline paper
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