Marilyn Wedge's Blog, page 19
July 8, 2012
Are We An ADHD Culture?
July 5, 2012
Pills Are Not For Preschoolers
This week, pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay the largest fraud settlement ever involving a pharmaceutical company for improper marketing practices, including illegally marketing its antidepressant drug Paxil to children. Details about the settlement were reported in an article in The New York Times on July 2.
July 2, 2012
Adultescence in America
June 27, 2012
The Drama of the Gifted Child
The wisdom that Alice Miller shares with us in her famous book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, is something that every therapist who works with children revisits more often than we would like.
June 9, 2012
How to Focus Like a Laser
The latest fad among Ivy League college-bound kids is to snort Adderall, an amphetamine routinely prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD.
April 30, 2012
Motherhood, Work, and Dignity
In the flurry of the national rhetoric about whether mothers should stay at home with the kids or choose the so-called "dignity" that comes with working outside the home, one key element is strikingly absent—what about the kids? Is a child better off when his mother is a stay-at-home mom or when she works outside the home?
