Electroshock and Minors: A Fifty-Year Review

by Steve Baldwin and Melissa Oxlad

In an attempt to explore the explanations why psychiatrists continue to use electroshock with minors already at risk from damage, this text investigates reasons why electroshock remains popular, despite the widespread availability of proven psychosocial alternatives. The text locates all of the literature since the 1940s about the use of electroshock with minors from three years of age through adolescence.

Since the introduction of shock...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313308616
• ISBN13: 9780313308611
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"