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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Sharna Olfman
PART I. DRUGGING OUR CHILDREN: THE PROBLEM
1 Weighing the Evidence: What Science Has to Say about Prescribing Atypical Antipsychotics to Children
Robert Whitaker
2 From Ice Pick Lobotomies to Antipsychotics as Sleep Aids for Children: A Historical Perspective
Brent Dean Robbins
3 Drugging Our Children: A Culture That Has Lost Its Compass
Sharna Olfman
4 The Marketing of Madness and Psychotropic Drugs to Children
Gwen Olsen
PART II. DRUGGING OUR CHILDREN: ETHICAL AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
5 Pediatric Antipsychotics: A Call for Ethical Care
Jacqueline A. Sparks and Barry L. Duncan
6 Legal Issues Surrounding the Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Youth
Jim Gottstein
PART III. DRUGGING OUR CHILDREN: SOLUTIONS
7 Drug-Free Mental Health Care for Children and Youth: Lessons from Residential Treatment
Tony Stanton
8 Strategic Family Therapy as an Alternative to Antipsychotics
George Stone
9 How Parents Can Improve Their Children's Developmental Trajectories
Adena B. Meyers and Laura E. Berk
10 Building Healthy Minds: It Takes a Village
Stuart Shanker
Afterword
Sharna Olfman
Notes
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
