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