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The ADHD explosion : myths, medication, money, and today's push for performance /

Stephen Hinshaw, a distinguished psychologist, and Richard Scheffler, an eminent health economist, uniquely blend clinical wisdom, current science, medical and school policy, and global trends to debunk myths and set the record straight in The ADHD Explosion. They describe the origins of ADHD and it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hinshaw, Stephen P. (Autor), Scheffler, Richard M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The TNT fueling the explosion: origins and costs of ADHD
  • The nature and causes of ADHD : where biology meets culture
  • Diagnosing and treating ADHD : do it right or pay the price
  • The upward spiral of ADHD medications: enhanced performance of potential for abuse?
  • What a difference a state makes: how educational policy determines diagnosis and treatment
  • The cost of ADHD : it's the economy, stupid
  • ADHD and the media
  • What's being said and what's being sold?
  • ADHD around the world
  • Beyond white, middle-class boys: plus the stigma of ADHD
  • The future of ADHD : predictions, confusions, and conclusions.