Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Senn, M J

Titel

Quality of services to children

Ist Teil von

• Pediatrics (Evanston), 1977-11, Vol.60 (5), p.768-768

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

1977

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• My recent experience in evaluating private and public institutions for the care and treatment of mentally retarded and emotionally disturbed children for the U.S. Department of Justice has demonstrated widespread abuses in programs dealing with such children. Diagnoses of minimal brain damage, dyslexia, and mental retardation are made indiscriminately with a pseudoscientific assurance which permits children to be given medications inappropriately and in dangerous amounts. Drugs are used to control behavior which is often normative for the circumstances under which the children are being educated and reared.