Critical Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Book Details
- Publisher : Free Association Books
- Published : 2006
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 235
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 24149
- ISBN 13 : 9781853439438
- ISBN 10 : 1853439436
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There is a crisis of credibility within child and adolescent psychiatry. Child and adolescent mental health theory and practice have come to be dominated by a narrow biomedical frame. Rising numbers of children are being diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses and given psychotropic medication to 'treat' these 'illnesses'. This text brings together knowledgeable specialists across the spectrum of child and adolescent psychiatry, which are deeply critical about current mainstream theory and practice. These 'critical voices' drawing upon research and writing from related disciplines, radically question many of psychiatry's most cherished assumptions and offer new ways of thinking about theory and practice.
This courageous book aims to bring marginal voices into the mainstream. Exploring the influence of drug companies, the impact of trauma, the crisis in academic medicine, systemic perspectives, adolescent in-patient units, ADHD, childhood depression and the role of diet and nutrition, the contributors offer hope to those looking for alternatives to diagnosis and medication for children and families with emotional and behavioral problems.
About the Author(s)
Sami Timimi is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and author of Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood, and Naughty Boys: Anti-social behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture.
Begum Maitra is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, with special interests in parenting across culture, cross-cultural therapy, and cultural competence and training.
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