TITLE: Medicating Children: ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health
AUTHOR: Rick Mayes, Catherine Bagwell, and Jennifer Erkulwater
FORMAT: BOOK
LOCATION CODE: MED48
GENERAL INFO:Why and how did ADHD become the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder among children and adolescents, as well as one of the most controversial? Stimulant medication had been used to treat excessively hyperactive children since the 1950’s. And the behaviors that today might lead to an ADHD diagnosis had been observed and known since the early 1930’s as “organic drivenness,” and then by various other names throughout the decades.
The authors argue that a unique alignment of social and economic trends and incentives converged in the early 1990’s with greater scientific knowledge to make ADHD the most prevalent pediatric mental disorder. New movements in advocating for the rights of children and the disabled and a massive increase in Medicaid spending on psychotropic drugs all contributed to the dramatic spike in ADHD diagnoses and stimulant use.
This book is unique in that it integrates analyses of the clinical, political, historical, educational, social, economical, and legal aspects of ADHD and stimulation pharmacotherapy. Thus, it will be invaluable to educators, clinicians, parents, and policy makers, all of whom are trying to determine what is in the best interest of millions of children
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