Pseudoscience in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: A Skeptical Field Guide

336 Pages·2019·2.025 MB·English

by  Stephen Hupp (ed.)

Pseudoscience in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Most infants, children, and adolescents facing mental health challenges –
includingautism,psychosis,mania,depression,anxiety,andsubstanceuse–
donotreceiveevidence-basedtreatments.Instead,theycommonlyreceive
ineffectiveandevenharmfultreatments.Inthisbook,leadingexpertsfrom
thefieldsofclinicalpsychology,schoolpsychology,developmentalpsychol-
ogy,pediatricneurology,appliedbehavioranalysis,andsocialworkidentify
the most problematic psychotherapy interventions used for each mental
health issue. In addition to these primary authors, each chapter includes
asidebarfromaspecialistrepresentingthedisciplinesofpediatrics,anthro-
pology,neuroscience,andpsychology.Thecontributorsworkinacademia,
hospitals, and private practice and include book authors, podcasters, and
evenafilmmaker.Notonlydoesthisbookhighlightthethreatsofpotentially
harmful pseudoscience, it also summarizes treatments that actually have
astrongevidencebaseanddeliverfarmorepositiveresults.
Stephen Hupp is Professor of Psychology in the Clinical Child and School
Psychology program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE),
USA, and a licensed clinical psychologist. His other books include Great
MythsofChildDevelopment(2015),GreatMythsofAdolescence(2019),and
Thinking Critically About Child Development, 4th edition (forthcoming,
2020). In 2015, he won the Great Teacher Award from the SIUE Alumni
Association. He is also an executive producer for the Science Moms docu-
mentary, and he holds the Guinness World Record for the “longest line
ofbooks.”OnTwitterheis@StephenHupp.
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Pseudoscience in Child
and Adolescent
Psychotherapy
A Skeptical Field Guide
Editedby
Stephen Hupp
SouthernIllinoisUniversityEdwardsville
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Contents
ListofSidebars pageix
ListofContributors xi
Foreword xv
ScottO.Lilienfeld
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxii
1 CriticalThinkingaboutPsychotherapy 1
StephenHupp,JeanMercer,BruceA.Thyer,andMonicaPignotti
2 IntellectualandAdaptiveFunctioning 14
ElizabethM.Kryszak,JessicaF.Scherr,andJamesA.Mulick
3 AutismSpectrum 28
JessicaF.Scherr,ElizabethM.Kryszak,andJamesA.Mulick
4 InattentionandHyperactivity 50
ChristineA.LeeandRichardMilich
5 Learning 66
ZacharyLaBrotandBradDufrene
6 Tics 80
MichaelB.HimleandBriannaWellen
7 Psychosis 96
RachelWafordandCarinaA.Iati
8 BipolarSpectrum 110
GuillermoPérezAlgortaandEricYoungstrom
9 Depression 124
ThomasJ.Huberty
10 Anxiety 140
BruceA.ThyerandMonicaPignotti
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11 ObsessionsandCompulsions 159
MonicaPignottiandBruceA.Thyer
12 TraumaandAttachment 172
JeanMercer
13 Feeding 189
LindaJ.Cooper-Brown,MaryLouiseE.Kerwin,
andKeithE.Williams
14 Eating 206
FrancesBozsik,BrookeL.Bennett,EmilyStefano,
BrookeL.Whisenhunt,andDanaeL.Hudson
15 Toileting 225
MichaelI.AxelrodandJosephP.Deegan
16 Sleep 243
StephanieJacksonandSarahMorsbachHonaker
17 DisruptiveBehaviorandConduct 260
JeremyJewell,MadisonSchoen,SydneyThompson,
EmilyFischer,andSarahConoyer
18 SubstanceUse 276
MariannSuarez
19 SkepticismandPsychotherapy 291
StephenHuppandKathleenDyer
Index 302
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Sidebars
1 WhatisGuerrillaSkepticismonWikipedia? page6
SusanGerbic
2 Doescraniosacraltherapyimprovecognitivefunctioning? 22
JasonTravers
3 DoesDolphin-AssistedTherapyhavehealingeffects? 37
LoriMarinoandScottO.Lilienfeld
4 Doesbrainbalancingimproveattention? 57
ChristianJarrett
5 Shouldchildrenbetaughtbasedontheirpreferredlearning
style? 68
IndreViskontas
6 Canadentaldevicedecreasetics? 89
GrantRitcheyandClayJones
7 Ishomeopathyeffectiveforschizophrenia? 105
MichaelMarshall
8 Doesnaturopathicmedicinehelptreatbipolardisorder? 115
BrittHermes
9 Ispsychoanalyticdreaminterpretationuseful? 133
CalebW.Lack
10 ShouldchildrenbeafraidofBigfoot? 141
CarolE.Colaninno
11 Dosuperstitiousritualshelpcopewithanxiety? 160
StuartVyse
12 Doesattachmentparentingpromoteattachment? 176
AmyTuteur
13 ShouldparentsavoidfeedingtheirchildrenGMOs? 196
NatalieNewell
14 Isitpossibleforbreatharianstolivewithoutfoodorwater? 211
JoeNickell
15 Doesself-acupressureworkforconstipation? 233
HarrietHall
16 Doaliensabductpeoplewhiletheyaresleeping? 250
W.BlakeSmith
17 Islyingalwaysasignofpsychologicalproblems? 261
RobertS.Feldman
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x ListofSidebars
18 Arespecializedgoggleseffectiveatpreventingimpaired
driving? 282
MirandaMeekerandLeAnnaKehl
19a Whatisgayconversiontherapy? 292
SheldonW.Helms
19b Shouldchildrenbetaughtaboutpseudoscience? 299
HenryHupp
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