Taking a stand: challenging medical discourse.

Part of a special section on marriage and family therapy research in community agencies. A response to the commentaries of W.H. Denton, S.R. Walsh, and S.S. Daniel; and L. Combrinck-Graham on the writer's “Taking a stand: An adolescent girl's resistance to medication,” all of which appear in this...

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Publicado en:Journal of Marital & Family Therapy Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 51 - 60
Autor principal: Sparks, Jacqueline A.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell January 2002
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Sumario:Part of a special section on marriage and family therapy research in community agencies. A response to the commentaries of W.H. Denton, S.R. Walsh, and S.S. Daniel; and L. Combrinck-Graham on the writer's “Taking a stand: An adolescent girl's resistance to medication,” all of which appear in this issue. The writer notes that these commentaries allow her to further expand on her concerns about the increased medicalization of psychotherapy, especially medication for treating adolescent depression, and its impact on clinicians and clients.