In a fiery interview with Northwestern professor Christopher
Lane, journalist Phillip Dawdy explains his belief that parents need to stop
trusting that the doctor knows best when it comes to mental health diagnoses of
young children. I offer his arguments here for discussion’s sake, with the
caveat that neither I nor Dawdy are pediatric psychiatrists—but he at least has
spent many years researching the field.
In
2005, at least 2.2 million American children were being treated for
mental health disorders, a number that has skyrocketed in the last
decade and a half. And in 2007, 23 babies
less than one-year-old were prescribed antipsychotics.
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