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Considering its tender age as a medical subspecialty, child and adolescent psychiatry stands out for the number of controversies surrounding its practice, for example, the causes of autism (bad mothering, vaccines); the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (diet); facilitated communication (legitimate technique versus fraud); child custody disputes (sole custody versus shared parenting; harmful versus beneficial overnights with the noncustodial parent for young children); and parental alienation (a form of child psychological abuse versus a fabrication to aid abusive fathers).
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Book forum Source Type: research