Dangers of labeling children ‘mentally ill’ – Children are increasingly being given drugs by doctors to help teachers and parents cope with their troublesome behaviour. Certain behaviours or actions by children, such as not sitting still, are being judged as evidence of mental disorders and used to justify an official diagnosis. This has led […]

Collection of Evidence-based Practices for Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Treatment Needs – The recognition that children and adolescents suffer from mental health disorders is a relatively recent development. Throughout history, childhood was considered a happy period. Children were not thought to suffer from mental disorders or emotional distresses, due to the notion […]

Against Parental Rights – This article begins by describing the most common, child-centered justification for parental rights: that parents are empowered in order to protect children’s best interests. I argue that these child-centered accounts do not justify the current legal regime governing parental rights. Instead, current parental rights are better understood as quasi-property interests, […]

Abusive Treatment Common in the USA, Not Just Asia – It is easier to point out the mote in another’s eye than to see the plank in one’s own. Jürgens and Csete rightly condemn abuses in addiction treatment in a number of countries, but let us not forget the history of physically and psychologically abusive […]