With more than four million American children diagnosed with ADHD and other psychiatric disorders, taking a child to a psychiatrist is as common as taking them to soccer practice. But, disturbingly, a great number of children experience dangerous emotional and physical side effects from psychotropic medications. Where can parents who are eager to avoid shaming labels and drugs turn when their child exhibits disturbing behavior? Suffer the Children presents a much-needed alternative: child-focused family therapy. A family ...
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With more than four million American children diagnosed with ADHD and other psychiatric disorders, taking a child to a psychiatrist is as common as taking them to soccer practice. But, disturbingly, a great number of children experience dangerous emotional and physical side effects from psychotropic medications. Where can parents who are eager to avoid shaming labels and drugs turn when their child exhibits disturbing behavior? Suffer the Children presents a much-needed alternative: child-focused family therapy. A family therapist for over twenty years, Marilyn Wedge shares the stories of her patients. Wedge presents creative strategies that flow from viewing children's symptoms not as biologically determined "disorders" but as responses to relationships in their lives that can be altered with the help of a therapist. Instructive, illuminating, and uplifting, Suffer the Children radically reframes how we as parents, as health professionals, and as a society can respond to problems of childhood in a considerate and respectful fashion.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. 243 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010041045 Type of material Book Personal name Wedge, Marilyn. Main title Suffer the children: the case against labeling and medicating and an effective alternative / Marilyn Wedge. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created New York: W. W. Norton & Co., c2011. Description x, 243 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780393071597 LC classification RJ504. W34 2011 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. Subjects 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. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-232) and index. Dewey class no. 618.92/8914 NLM class no. WS 350.6 Other system no. (DNLM)101542880