Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Rising incidence of "ADHD" calls for radical rethinking

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When the American Academy of Pediatrics changed the guidelines for ADHD  to expand age of diagnosis to include children from age 4-18 (from ...
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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Buddhism, brain science, and parenting: towards an integration

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In the past week I had two profound yet seemingly polar opposite conversations about how to promote healthy development. The first was a...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Authoritarian parenting vs. parenting with authority

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Authoritarian parenting, as in "my way or the highway," and its opposite, permissive parenting with lack of limit setting, may be ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

What might redefining "term pregnancy" mean for parents and babies?

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So far the discussion on the policy change by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology  (ACOG) has focused on the implication for ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Moving beyond the DSM paradigm of mental health care

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A paradigm is a way of thinking about things. For the past 60 or so years, our thinking about mental health and illness has been dominated b...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Reflections on the government shutdown: why is health care so threatening?

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 I may be putting myself out on a bit of a limb here, but the draw of the blog makes it hard to sit silent while our country heads towards d...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Mental illness and motherhood: lessons from Miriam Carey

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We do not have medical records or diagnoses. The news is filled with speculation. What we do know is that Miriam Carey’s one-year-old da...