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A veteran medical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions. <.p>In modern times there has been an alarming rise in the amount of American children and children allocated a mental health identification. Current data from the Centers for Disease Control disclose a 41 percent upsurge in rates of ADHD diagnoses within the last decade and a forty-fold spike in bipolar disorder diagnoses. Similarly, diagnoses of autism range disorder has increased by 78 percent since 2002. Dr. Enrico Gnaulati, a medical psychologist specializing in youth and adolescent remedy and analysis, has witnessed firsthand the drive to diagnose these disorders in children. Drawing both by himself medical experience and on cutting-edge research, with Again to Normal he has written the definitive profile of why our kids are being dramatically overdiagnosed - and how parents and pros can distinguish between true psychiatric disorders and normal youth reactions to stressful life situations. Gnaulati commences with the complicated web of factors that contain resulted in our current problems. These include doubtful education and training procedures that cloud mental health pros' ability to tell apart normal from unusual habit in children, economic incentives favoring prescriptions, check-list diagnosing, and high-stakes tests in universities. We've also developed an extremely casual attitude about labeling kids and placing them on psychiatric drugs. Just how do we distinguish between a kid with, say, Asperger's symptoms and a kid who's simply introverted, brainy, and single-minded? As Gnaulati records, lots of the symptoms associated with these disorders act like everyday childhood behaviors. In the next one half of the booklet Gnaulati tells complete reports of wrongly diagnosed kids, providing parents and others with information about the developmental, temperamental, and environmentally motivated symptoms that to a casual or untrained attention can mimic a psychiatric disorder. These reports also disclose how nonmedical interventions, whether in the therapist's office or through changes made at home, can help children. Again to Normal reminds us of the normalcy of children's seemingly abnormal behavior. It will give parents of struggling children desire, perspective, and path. And it'll make everyone who deals with children question the changes in our society that contain added to the amazing increase in youth psychiatric diagnoses.
