Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health
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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 had been observed since the early 1930s as "organic drivenness," and then by various other names throughout the decades. Rick Mayes and colleagues argue...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674031636
ISBN13:9780674031630
Release Date:January 2009
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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