Wedge, Marilyn,

Suffer the children : the case against labeling and medicating and an effective alternative / Suffer the children : The case against labelling and medicating and an effective alternative Marilyn Wedge. - First edition. - x, 243 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index.

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.

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.

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Child psychotherapy.
Family psychotherapy.
Behavior disorders in children--Treatment
Family psychotherapy--Methodology
Psychotropic drugs--Side effects
Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders--therapy
Child Psychiatry--trends
Unnecessary Procedures--trends

RJ504 / .W34 2011

618.928914