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Making and Breaking Children's Lives
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Description for Making and Breaking Children's Lives
Paperback. We hear about the effects of early abandonment, abuse and lack of attachment, but find that children's experiences are sanitised through medical diagnoses and frequently the 'help' offered is prescription drugs. This book examines how children are hurt in modern society. Editor(s): Radcliffe, Nick; Newnes, Craig. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JKSB1; MJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 12. Weight in Grams: 338.
"Making and Breaking Children's Lives" examines how children are hurt in modern society. We hear about the effects of early abandonment, abuse and lack of attachment, but find that children's experiences are sanitised through medical diagnoses and frequently the 'help' offered is prescription drugs. In this challenging book a plurality of voices returns to one consistent theme - the importance of psychosocial context, which become increasingly dismissed as being irrelevant in the rush to label and prescribe. However, there is hope - the final section describes inspiring examples of how services and communities can be developed to give children and ... Read more
"Making and Breaking Children's Lives" examines how children are hurt in modern society. We hear about the effects of early abandonment, abuse and lack of attachment, but find that children's experiences are sanitised through medical diagnoses and frequently the 'help' offered is prescription drugs. In this challenging book a plurality of voices returns to one consistent theme - the importance of psychosocial context, which become increasingly dismissed as being irrelevant in the rush to label and prescribe. However, there is hope - the final section describes inspiring examples of how services and communities can be developed to give children and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
PCCS Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Monmouth, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781898059707
SKU
V9781898059707
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Ref
99-15
About N/a
Craig Newnes is editor of The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy (formerly Changes), and a comissioning editor and author for our Critical Psychology series. Prior to his retirement he was Director of Psychological Therapies for Shropshire. He has a life time commitment to the NHS and is an outspoken critic of the hypocrisy, self interest, confusion and downright ... Read more
Reviews for Making and Breaking Children's Lives
More and more children are being caught up in the mental health system. One sign of this is the increased use in the UK of the diagnosis Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD ) - Another is the widespread prescribing of the stimulant Ritalin as a treatment. Making and Breaking Children's Lives confronts this situation head on, offering a robust critique ... Read more