Drugging our children how profiteers are pushing antipsychotics on our youngest, and what we can do to stop it Sharna Olfman and Brent Dean Robbins, editors.
Series Detalles de publicación: Santa Barbara, Calif. Praeger c2012.Descripción: xvii, 232 p. 24 cmISBN:- 9780313396830 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
- 0313396833 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
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- RJ504.7 .D76 2012
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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 drug-fueled mental health system.
Since 2001, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of antipsychotics to treat children for an ever-expanding list of symptoms. The prescription rate for toddlers, preschoolers, and middle-class children has doubled, while the prescribing rate for low-income children covered by Medicaid has quadrupled. In a majority of cases, these drugs are neither FDA-approved nor justified by research for the children's conditions.
This book examines the reasons behind the explosion of antipsychotic drug prescriptions for children, spotlighting the historical and cultural factors as well as the role of the pharmaceutical industry in this trend; and discusses the ethical and legal responsibilities and ramifications for non-MDs--psychologists in particular--who work with children treated with antipsychotics.
Contributors explain how the pharmaceutical industry has inserted itself into every step of medical education, rendering objectivity in the scientific understanding, use, and approvals of such drugs impossible. The text describes the relentless marketing behind the drug sales, even going as far as to provide coloring and picture books for children related to the drug at issue. Valuable information about legal recourse that families and therapists can take when their children or patients have been harmed by antipsychotic drugs and alternative approaches to working with children with emotional and behavioral challenges is also provided.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics
Sharna Olfman is professor of clinical and developmental psychology at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Brent Dean Robbins , PhD, is associate professor of psychology and director of the psychology program at Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA.