Medicating children [electronic resource] : ADHD and pediatric mental health / Rick Mayes, Catherine Bagwell, Jennifer Erkulwater.
"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 dia...
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to ADHD
- A survey of the evolution of ADHD and pediatric stimulant use, 1900-1980
- The transformation of mental disorders in the 1980s : from the DSM-III, managed care, and "cosmetic psychopharmacology"
- ADHD and the politics of children's disability policy
- The backlash against ADHD and stimulants
- Current questions about stimulant treatment for ADHD.