Aug 21, 2015 12:08 AM
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc...446&cn=165
EXCERPT: I was struck by the title of this book by Linda Blum, and especially by the term "Generation Rx", related to the huge number of children and adolescents receiving psychotropic medicines in the United states.
[...] It is based on a series of interviews with 48 mothers of children with psychiatric disorders, primarily ADHD and autism. And the story is worth telling: it is extremely difficult for mothers of all social classes and levels of education to navigate the incredible, jargon-replete bureaucracies of the schools and their Special Education programs, public services, and psychiatry, as well as their interfaces with each other. It is extremely difficult for all mothers, and more difficult for those who are poor, single, or members of minority groups. This book details their accounts of these difficulties. While Blum refers to the childhood disorders as "invisible", this seems to be a poor term since the behaviors associated with them are often very visible indeed.
[...] One is left realizing that the mothers of this book have a very hard task...
EXCERPT: I was struck by the title of this book by Linda Blum, and especially by the term "Generation Rx", related to the huge number of children and adolescents receiving psychotropic medicines in the United states.
[...] It is based on a series of interviews with 48 mothers of children with psychiatric disorders, primarily ADHD and autism. And the story is worth telling: it is extremely difficult for mothers of all social classes and levels of education to navigate the incredible, jargon-replete bureaucracies of the schools and their Special Education programs, public services, and psychiatry, as well as their interfaces with each other. It is extremely difficult for all mothers, and more difficult for those who are poor, single, or members of minority groups. This book details their accounts of these difficulties. While Blum refers to the childhood disorders as "invisible", this seems to be a poor term since the behaviors associated with them are often very visible indeed.
[...] One is left realizing that the mothers of this book have a very hard task...