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Author Wedge, Marilyn.

Title Suffer the children : the case against labeling and medicating and an effective alternative / Marilyn Wedge.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  618.92 W416    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  618.9289 WEDGE    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  618.9289 WED    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 243 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-233) and index.
Contents Beyond psychiatric labels : what stories tell us -- A new frame : strategic child-focused family therapy -- Listening to children -- Metaphor -- Invisible alliances -- Reading by not reading : the power of paradox -- Medication : the promise and the peril -- Threshold kids : a passage in search of a rite -- From biology to benevolence.
Summary 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.
Subject Child psychotherapy.
Family psychotherapy.
Child Behavior Disorders -- therapy.
Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders -- therapy.
Child Psychiatry -- trends.
Child.
Family Therapy -- methods.
Psychotropic Drugs -- adverse effects.
Unnecessary Procedures -- trends.
ISBN 9780393071597 hardback $26.95
0393071596 hardback
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