The Diseasing of America's Children

Exposing the ADHD Fiasco and Empowering Parents to Take Back Control

By: John Rosemond, Bose Ravenel

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

How parents, teachers, and even professionals are being deceived by the "ADHD Establishment" regarding ADHD and other childhood behavior disorders and the drugs used to treat them.

The issue of diagnosing children with behavioral diseases that do not conform to a scientific definition of disease, and then medicating them is a scandal ready to erupt. In The Diseasing of America's Children, popular family psychologist, speaker, and best-selling author John Rosemond joins with pediatrician Dr. Bose Ravenel to uncover the fiction and fallacy behind attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), early-onset bipolar disorder (EOBD), and the drugs prescribed to treat them. Rosemond and Ravenel will:

• reveal the pseudo-science behind these diagnoses
• explain how parents, teachers, and even professionals are deceived
• expose the short- and long-term dangers behavioral drugs pose to children
• discuss how America's schools are unwittingly feeding the diagnostic beast
• reveal the simple, common-sense truth behind these behavior problems
• and give parents a practical program for curing these problems without drugs or dependence on professionals

The information makes sense.

I like the stories of calm, consistent, practical approach to addressing bad behavior without medication.

Parental empowerment to take back control

As a mental health provider, working in community mental health, I’ve often questioned the approach to counseling children without full parental involvement. This book confirmed the long standing questions that I’ve had concerning working with children diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, and DMDD. This book has truly helped me to realize that it is possible to empower parents to help their children.

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Dislike his long rattling writing style. Seem like he was trying to impress you with his words and redefining words. We are not trying to parent children in the 1960s today.