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No Child Left Different
Sharna Olfman

0-275-98522-9/978-0-275-98522-6

Description
A remarkable team of experts spotlights and questions the soaring number of children diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and placed on medication, some not even old enough to attend school, and many—up to 40 percent—placed on multiple psychiatric drugs that have never been clinically tested on children.

Reviews:
-[T]hose seeking an introduction to alternative ways to view the problems facing Americas children--and progressive solutions to these problems--will appreciate this collection. Editor Sharna Olfman, whose series Childhood in America also includes the volumes Childhood Lost: How American Culture is Failing Our Kids and All Work and No Play...:How Educational Reforms Are Harming Our Preschoolers, is to be commended for making this range of views readily accessible. —Metapsychology
-[S]ucceeds admirably in alerting the reader to the problems of psychotropic drugs for children....[t]his book raises many potential ethical issues....[o]pens a much needed conversation about the cultural and ethical implications of medical interventions for normalizing individuals. —The Hastings Center Report
-[T]akes a critical look at the promotion and overuse of pyschoactive drugs in children. —Easton's Public Library eNewsletter
-A group of authors from various disciplines explain why there has been a 300-percent increase in the use of psychotropic medications for children under the age of 20 and why prescriptions for preschoolers have skyrocketed. The authors question the causes, describe the risks and discuss how emotional, social, cultural and physical environments can both damage and heal young minds. The book also looks at the controversy of whether psychiatric medications are safe or effective for children and what is known about their effects on brains that are still developing. —District Administration
About the Author
Sharna Olfman is series editor for the Praeger series, Childhood in America. Dr. Olfman is a Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Humanities at Point Park University, Pittsburgh. She teaches child development and directs the annual Childhood and Society Symposium.
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