Please Don't Label My Child Treat the 6 Stressors That Imprison Your Child's Well-being

"In recent years, the diagnosing of serious mental conditions in children has skyrocketed. From 1987 to 1996, the number of kids in the United States given prescriptions for psychiatric medications tripled. If this trend continues, fully half of all American kids will be on some kind of psychiatric drug within a generation. Are more and more of our children really born with faulty brain chemistry? Or are we simply too willing to label and medicate them? Dr. Shannon answers these compelling questions." "Dr. Shannon believes in the innate "wellness" of our children, and he views the escalating diagnoses of major psychiatric conditions (such as depression, ADHD, and bipolar disorder) as more of a reflection of a well-meaning but flawed medical system than a gauge of the health and quality of our kids' brains." "What sets Dr. Shannon apart is his belief that the behavioral, social, and emotional problems we see in our children today are symptoms of real stressors that are not being addressed. In Please Don't Label My Child, Dr. Shannon clearly identifies the most common stressor - such as inadequate nutrition, hidden environmental issues, strained parent-child relationships, unaddressed trauma, and poor "fit" between a child's learning style and his school - and shows parents how to tackle them head-on."--BOOK JACKET.Shannon, Scott M. is the author of 'Please Don't Label My Child Treat the 6 Stressors That Imprison Your Child's Well-being', published 2007 under ISBN 9781579546823 and ISBN 157954682X.