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All Work and No Play…
How Educational Reforms Are Harming Our Preschoolers
Inbunden, 2003
1036 kr
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Educators, neurologists, and psychologists explain how the high-stakes testing movement, and the race to wire classrooms, is actually stunting our children's intellects, blocking brain development and sometimes fueling mental illness. These experts, including a Pulitzer-Prize nominee, explain why …
Childhood Lost
How American Culture Is Failing Our Kids
Av Sharna Olfman, Sharna Olfman
Inbunden, 2005
624 kr
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Experts from across disciplines join forces here to focus attention on current American culture and the devastating effects it is having on its children. From children developing surprising physical maturity and sexual awareness at younger and younger ages, to those estranged when television and …
Last Normal Child
Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture, and Psychiatric Drugs
Inbunden, 2006
880 kr
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Behavioral-developmental pediatrician Lawrence Diller continues his investigation into the widespread use of psychiatric drugs for children in America, an investigation that began with his first book, Running on Ritalin. In this work at hand, Diller delves more deeply into the factors that drive …
Bipolar Children
Cutting-Edge Controversy, Insights, and Research
Inbunden, 2007
880 kr
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Over the last decade, the number of children diagnosed with bipolar disorder has increased up to fortyfold. This is a trend exclusive to the United States, and one that, alarmingly, leads to most of the diagnosed children—some still in their infancy—being prescribed antipsychotic drugs, often in …
Bipolar Children
Cutting-Edge Controversy, Insights, and Research
E-bok, 2007
931 kr
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Over the last decade, the number of children diagnosed with bipolar disorder has increased up to fortyfold. This is a trend exclusive to the United States, and one that, alarmingly, leads to most of the diagnosed children—some still in their infancy—being prescribed antipsychotic drugs, often in …
Sexualization of Childhood
Inbunden, 2008
624 kr
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Only a generation or two ago, childhood in the United States was understood to be a unique and vulnerable stage of development; a time for play and protection from adult preoccupations and responsibilities. In recent decades however, we appear to have jettisoned these norms, and the lines that …
Sexualization of Childhood
E-bok, 2008
656 kr
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Only a generation or two ago, childhood in the United States was understood to be a unique and vulnerable stage of development; a time for play and protection from adult preoccupations and responsibilities. In recent decades however, we appear to have jettisoned these norms, and the lines that …
No Child Left Different
E-bok, 2006
1178 kr
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A stellar group of authors from across disciplines explains the alarming increase in the use of psychotropic medications, questions the causes, and presents disturbing thoughts regarding this phenomenon and the risks it creates for children. They take an in-depth look at the conditions that have …
Last Normal Child
Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture, and Psychiatric Drugs
E-bok, 2006
963 kr
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Behavioral-developmental pediatrician Lawrence Diller continues his investigation into the widespread use of psychiatric drugs for children in America, an investigation that began with his first book, Running on Ritalin . In this work at hand, Diller delves more deeply into the factors that drive …
Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder
How Bad Science and Good Public Relations Created the Diagnosis
Av Stuart Kaplan, Stuart L. Kaplan M.D.
Inbunden, 2011
532 kr
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An eminent child psychiatrist provides an insider's, whistle-blowing perspective on the promotion of a diagnostic entity that does not exist.Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder: How Bad Science and Good Public Relations Created the Diagnosis examines this diagnostic fad through a variety of …
Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder
How Bad Science and Good Public Relations Created the Diagnosis
E-bok, 2011
530 kr
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An eminent child psychiatrist provides an insider's, whistle-blowing perspective on the promotion of a diagnostic entity that does not exist. Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder: How Bad Science and Good Public Relations Created the Diagnosis examines this diagnostic fad through a variety of …
How Dysfunctional Families Spur Mental Disorders
A Balanced Approach to Resolve Problems and Reconcile Relationships
E-bok, 2010
682 kr
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The book examines various scientific, economic, and cultural forces that have affected the mental health field's viewpoint—and that of society in general—regarding the genesis of some behavioral disorders, and how dysfunctional family dynamics play an often overlooked role. Millions of Americans …
Drugging Our Children
How Profiteers Are Pushing Antipsychotics on Our Youngest, and What We Can Do to Stop It
Av Sharna Olfman, Brent Dean Robbins
Inbunden, 2012
693 kr
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This book exposes the skyrocketing rate of antipsychotic drug prescriptions for children, identifies grave dangers when children's mental health care is driven by market forces, describes effective therapeutic care for children typically prescribed antipsychotics, and explains how to navigate a …
Drugging Our Children
How Profiteers are Pushing Antipsychotics on Our Youngest, and What We Can Do to Stop it
Av Sharna Olfman, Brent Dean Robbins
E-bok, 2012
741 kr
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This book exposes the skyrocketing rate of antipsychotic drug prescriptions for children, identifies grave dangers when children's mental health care is driven by market forces, describes effective therapeutic care for children typically prescribed antipsychotics, and explains how to navigate a …
Science and Pseudoscience of Children's Mental Health
Cutting Edge Research and Treatment
Inbunden, 2015
618 kr
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This book explains how studies in brain development and epigenetics—the inextricable interplay of genes and environments—have led to breakthroughs in the understanding of children's psychological disturbances and serve to discredit the scientifically unsupported "chemical imbalance theory" of …
Science and Pseudoscience of Children's Mental Health
Cutting Edge Research and Treatment
E-bok, 2015
674 kr
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This book explains how studies in brain development and epigenetics—the inextricable interplay of genes and environments—have led to breakthroughs in the understanding of children's psychological disturbances and serve to discredit the scientifically unsupported "chemical imbalance theory" of …
Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children
Teaching Kids to Be Smart Critics and Consumers
Inbunden, 2015
583 kr
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This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence.In this eye-opening book, experienced child psychologist Jennifer W. Shewmaker contends that the manner in which …
Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children
Teaching Kids to be Smart Critics and Consumers
E-bok, 2015
634 kr
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This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence. In this eye-opening book, experienced child psychologist Jennifer W. Shewmaker contends that the manner in …
How Consumer Culture Controls Our Kids
Cashing in on Conformity
Inbunden, 2015
713 kr
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This gripping book considers the history, techniques, and goals of child-targeted consumer campaigns and examines children's changing perceptions of what commodities they "need" to be valued and value themselves.In this critique of America's consumption-based society, author Jennifer Hill …
How Consumer Culture Controls Our Kids
Cashing in on Conformity
E-bok, 2015
763 kr
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This gripping book considers the history, techniques, and goals of child-targeted consumer campaigns and examines children's changing perceptions of what commodities they "need" to be valued and value themselves. In this critique of America's consumption-based society, author Jennifer Hill …
Drugging Our Children
How Profiteers are Pushing Antipsychotics on Our Youngest, and What We Can Do to Stop it
Av Sharna Olfman, Brent Dean Robbins
E-bok, 2012
803 kr
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This book exposes the skyrocketing rate of antipsychotic drug prescriptions for children, identifies grave dangers when children's mental health care is driven by market forces, describes effective therapeutic care for children typically prescribed antipsychotics, and explains how to navigate a …
How Consumer Culture Controls Our Kids
Cashing in on Conformity
E-bok, 2015
780 kr
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This gripping book considers the history, techniques, and goals of child-targeted consumer campaigns and examines children's changing perceptions of what commodities they "need" to be valued and value themselves. In this critique of America's consumption-based society, author Jennifer Hill …
Science and Pseudoscience of Children's Mental Health
Cutting Edge Research and Treatment
E-bok, 2015
636 kr
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This book explains how studies in brain development and epigenetics—the inextricable interplay of genes and environments—have led to breakthroughs in the understanding of children's psychological disturbances and serve to discredit the scientifically unsupported "chemical imbalance theory" of …
Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children
Teaching Kids to be Smart Critics and Consumers
E-bok, 2015
636 kr
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This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence. In this eye-opening book, experienced child psychologist Jennifer W. Shewmaker contends that the manner in …
