Medicating Children : : ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health / / Rick Mayes, Jennifer Erkulwater, Catherine Bagwell.
Why and how did ADHD become the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder among children and adolescents, as well as one of the most controversial? Stimulant medication had been used to treat excessively hyperactive children since the 1950s. And the behaviors that today might lead to an ADHD diagnosis...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter one. Introduction
- Chapter two. An Introduction to ADHD
- Chapter three. A Survey of the Evolution of ADHD and Pediatric Stimulant Use, 1900–1980
- Chapter four. The Transformation of Mental Disorders in the 1980s: The DSM-III, Managed Care, and “Cosmetic Psychopharmacology”
- Chapter five. ADHD and the Politics of Children’s Disability Policy
- Chapter six. The Backlash against ADHD and Stimulants
- Chapter seven. Current Questions about Stimulant Treatment for ADHD
- Chapter eight. Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index