Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Music and mental health: a tribute to Pete Seeger

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This morning while driving my son and two friends to practice for their high school singing group, we listened, as part of an  NPR report on...
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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Social responsibility to support new parents must follow demise of Isis Parenting

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"Where I live (Paris) women are very lonely when having a baby.  Is it the same in the US?" A French journalist posed this questi...
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Friday, January 10, 2014

Misuse of ADHD label as symptom of a broken health care system

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When the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with new guidelines a couple of years ago extending the age of diagnosis of ADHD (attenti...
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Monday, December 30, 2013

ADHD, the aggressive child and the elephant in the room

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(Three recent news items lead me to republish a post that predated my Boston.com days. The first is a new study showing that antipsychotics...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Why substituting "behavioral" health care for "mental" health care is wrong

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A colleague of mine recently pointed out a study by the Center for Health Care Strategies  (CHCS) about mental health care for children. Amo...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Are iPad attachments for bouncy seats and potty seats a violation of infants' rights?

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I was contemplating writing a blog post about the movement by the Boston-based advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood urgi...
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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