Critical Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

By: Begum Maitra, Sami Timimi

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"Part of these institutionalized biases, we think, results from the institutionalized racism that lies at the heart of the conceptual systems we use in psychiatry". 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.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Age Groups Age Groups for Adolescents Psychology Child & Developmental Psychology Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Psychiatry Clinical & Internal Medicine Paediatric Medicine

Clinical Psychology Psychotherapy

Introduction	p. 15
The scope of the problem of the relationship between drug companies and doctors	p. 37
Culture and the mental health of children : the 'cutting edge' of expertise	p. 48
Childhood : an Indian perspective	p. 75
Childhood trauma as a cause of ADHD, aggression, violence and anti-social behaviour	p. 97
The truth about academic medicine : children on psychotropic drugs and the illusion of science	p. 115
Adolescent in-patient units : changing the therapeutic philosophy	p. 136
Systemic approaches - critique and scope	p. 155
The politics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)	p. 171
Childhood depression?	p. 200
The Cactus clinic - an integrative approach to the treatment of ADHD	p. 214
New directions	p. 230
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