Emma Fergusson

Overmedicalization of young people’s distress is undermining and disempowering families

Author: Editorial 7th July 2023 0 Comments

This article by Emma Fergusson, Shona Reed-Purvis and Lucy Foulkes has been published in Nature. It begins: “Cases of mild or transient distress in young people are increasingly viewed as problems that require medical intervention. As CAMHS clinicians, we argue that…
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Overmedicalization of young people’s distress is undermining and disempowering families