Mills, C. orcid.org/0000-0003-0615-234X (2014) Psychotropic Childhoods: Global Mental Health and Pharmaceutical Children. Children & Society, 28 (3). pp. 194-204. ISSN 0951-0605
Abstract
While the World Health Organization calls to ‘scale up’ access to psychotropic drugs for children in the global South, research from the global North has found that long-term use of psychotropic drugs may be at best ineffective, or at worst harmful. Questioning what counts as evidence within the Movement for Global Mental Health, this article maps the physical, psychological and sociopolitical effects of increasingly global psychotropic interventions into children's lives. This psychiatrisation will be read alongside colonisation, leading to the uncomfortable question of whether every child should have the right to a psychotropic childhood.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 Wiley. |
Keywords: | colonialism; global mental health; international childhoods; pharmaceutical industry; psychiatrisation |
Dates: |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Education (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2017 11:40 |
Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2017 11:40 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12062 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/chso.12062 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115237 |