The Science and Pseudoscience of Children’s Mental Health: Cutting Edge Research and Treatment

355 Pages·2015·2.388 MB·English

by  Sharna Olfman (ed.)

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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
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For my mother, Bess Leve
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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
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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
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