A Disease Called Childhood

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A Disease Called Childhood
A Disease Called Childhood
Author : Marilyn Wedge
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Publisher : Avery
Language : English
Release Date : 15 March 2016
ISBN : 9781101982884
Pages : 274 pages
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Since 1987, the number of American children diagnosed with ADHD has jumped from 3 to 11 percent. Meanwhile, ADHD rates remain relatively low in other countries such as France, Finland, the UK, and Japan, where the number of children diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD is 1 percent or less. Alarmed by this trend, family therapist Marilyn Wedge set out to understand how ADHD became an American epidemicand to find out whether there are alternative treatments to powerful prescription drugs.

A Disease Called Childhood

A Disease Called Childhood by Marilyn Wedge

Since 1987, the number of American children diagnosed with ADHD has jumped from 3 to 11 percent. Meanwhile, ADHD rates remain relatively low in other countries such as France, Finland, the UK, and Japan, where the number of children diagnosed with and medicated for ADHD is 1 percent or less. Alarmed by this trend,

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A Disease Called Childhood

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