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2 Recent Titles in Childhood in America All Work and No Play …: How Educational Reforms Are Harming Our Preschoolers Sharna Olfman, editor Childhood Lost: How American Culture Is Failing Our Kids Sharna Olfman, editor No Child Left Different Sharna Olfman, editor The Last Normal Child: Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture, and Psychiatric Drugs Lawrence H. Diller Bipolar Children: Cutting-Edge Controversy, Insights, and Research Sharna Olfman, editor The Sexualization of Childhood Sharna Olfman, editor How Dysfunctional Families Spur Mental Disorders: A Balanced Approach to Resolve Problems and Reconcile Relationships 3 David M. Allen, MD Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder: How Bad Science and Good Public Relations Created the Diagnosis Stuart L. Kaplan, MD 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 Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children: Teaching Kids to Be Smart Critics and Consumers Jennifer W. Shewmaker 4 5 Copyright © 2015 by Sharna Olfman All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The science and pseudoscience of children’s mental health : cutting edge research and treatment / Sharna Olfman, editor. p. cm.—(Childhood in America) ISBN 978-1-4408-3083-9 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4408-3084-6 (ebook) I. Olfman, Sharna, editor. II. Series: Childhood in America. [DNLM: 1. Child. 2. Mental Disorders. WS 350] RJ499 618.92′89–dc23 2014045171 ISBN: 978-1-4408-3083-9 EISBN: 978-1-4408-3084-6 6 19 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 5 This book is also available on the World Wide Web as an eBook. Visit www.abc-clio.com for details. Praeger An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America 7 For my mother, Bess Leve 8 Contents Acknowledgments PART I. PSEUDOSCIENCE VERSUS SCIENCE 1 A New Paradigm in Children’s Mental Health Sharna Olfman 2 Chemical Imbalances: The Making of a Societal Delusion Robert Whitaker 3 Epigenetics and Children’s Mental Health Richard C. Francis PART II. THE SCIENCE OF CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH 4 The Impact of Toxic Chemicals on Children’s Mental Health Sharna Olfman 5 Functional Brain Imbalance and Autism Spectrum Disorder Robert Melillo and Gerry Leisman 6 Nutrition and Children’s Mental Health 9 Bonnie J. Kaplan and Julia J. Rucklidge 7 Concussions in Children and Youth: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Healing the Brain Daniel Gallucci 8 The Building Blocks of Children’s Mental Health: Care and Community Sharna Olfman Series Afterword: Childhood in America Sharna Olfman, PhD, Series Editor Notes and References About the Editor and Contributors Index 10
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