Critical Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

by Begum Maitra and Sami Timimi

There is a crisis of credibility within child and adolescent psychiatry. Child and adolescent mental health theory and practice have come to be dominated by a narrow biomedical frame. Rising numbers of children are being diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses and given psychotropic medication to treat these illnesses. This text brings together knowledgeable specialists across the spectrum of child and adolescent psychiatry, which are deeply critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853439436
• ISBN13: 9781853439438
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Free Association Books
• Length: 235 Pages