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Article: Case Study, Helping Kids Take Charge
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- Psychotherapy Networker
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- November 1, 2009
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CASE STUDY By Ben Furman and Christine Beuer
Helping Kids Take Charge How to get young people to turn their problems into coping skills
Over the past couple of decades, children's behavioral problems have been increasingly medicalized--conceived as psychiatric disorders, diagnosed by medical professionals, and, with increasing frequency, treated with psychoactive drugs. Too often, the results of this approach include not only physical and mental side effects, but the pervasive disempowerment of the kids, their parents, their teachers, and their entire social network. If the child has a "medical" problem, there's not much that the child, or anybody in his or her life, can do to change it ...