Features
- Cover Type: Paperback
- ISBN 10 Number: 1419665707
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1419665707
Product Description
I want to discuss why I believe that in many cases we have failed to deliver pediatric psychiatric services with the accuracy that every child deserves and how we can improve it.
In particular I want to explain why I question the reliability of the diagnostic procedures most frequently used to evaluate children with emotional problems. This book provides proof of what a wrong psychiatric diagnosis can do to a child, as well as evidence that validate a challenge to the statistics on psychiatric diagnoses given to the younger segments of our population. In particular, you could analyze data demonstrating that ADHD is over-diagnosed by the same clinicians that tend to under-diagnose other conditions such as mood and anxiety disorders.
I would like to empower the reader with the undefeated tool of a truth that can be used to argue, for example, with a professional who says that a 4-year-old child can not have an abnormal mood or be affected by anxiety problems such as obsessions, phobias, traumas, etc.
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