Bibliograph

Back to normal, why ordinary childhood behavior Is mistaken for ADHD, bipolar disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder, Enrico Gnaulati

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Back to normal, why ordinary childhood behavior Is mistaken for ADHD, bipolar disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder, Enrico Gnaulati

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Back to normal

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

858874155

Responsibility statement

Enrico Gnaulati

Sub title

why ordinary childhood behavior Is mistaken for ADHD, bipolar disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Summary

Why are doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnosing healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions? Gnaulati examines the factors that have led to our current crisis, provides parents with information about symptoms that to a casual or untrained eye can mimic a psychiatric disorder, and gives parents of struggling children hope, perspective, and directionA veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions

Table Of Contents

Mad science and mad medicine -- The rush to diagnose -- Casualties of casual diagnosing -- Abnormalizing boys -- The normalcy of problem behavior -- ADHD or childhood narcissism at the outer edges? -- Bipolar disorder? or teenage storm and stress twenty-first-century style? -- Autistic spectrum? or a brainy, willful, introverted boy? -- Parenting with authority

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