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"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 lenses. Author Stuart L. Kaplan, MD, draws heavily on his forty years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and professor of child psychiatry to make the argument that bipolar disorder in children and adolescents is incorrectly diagnosed and incorrectly treated. As Dr. Kaplan explains, the...
3) The bipolar child: the definitive and reassuring guide to childhood's most misunderstood disorder
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Discusses the diagnosis and treatment of early onset bipolar disorder in children, arguing that many youngsters who are currently being treated for ADHD and depresssion may actually be suffering from the early stages of manic depression.
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From the Publisher: 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 combination with anticonvulsants. These classes of drugs have dangerous side effects, including a doubling of mortality rates, shortened...
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A few days before his suicide, Evan Perry made a list of six things to live for, then matched it with a list of six things to die for. "We'll never know what was really in Evan's head the night he killed himself," his mother, filmmaker Dana Perry, says. Through home movies and interviews with those closest to the 15-year-old, this HBO documentary tells the story of Evan's battle with childhood bipolar disorder. Perry's footage captures early manifestations...
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Ten years ago, stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall were the drugs of choice to treat behavioral issues in children. Today, children as young as four years old, are being prescribed more powerful anti-psychotic medications that are much less understood. The drugs can cause serious side effects and virtually nothing is known about their long-term impact. The increase in the use of anti-psychotics is directly tied to the rising incidence of one particular...
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"Understanding Sensory Dysfunction provides a wide range of practical and empowering strategies to assist children with sensory dysfunction in learning, skills development and socialization. Focusing on early intervention, this book shows how children with sensory dysfunction can reach their full potential at home, at school and in the community. This comprehensive and accessible book is a useful resource for families, teachers and caregivers living...
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The completely updated and expanded new edition of this well-established text incorporates DSM-5 changes as well as other new developments. The all-in-one guide covers the whole range of often co-existing neuro-behavioral disorders in children - from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety, to autism spectrum disorders, nonverbal learning disabilities, Tourette's, sensory integration problems, and...
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