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These quotes are listed alphabetically by author and then date published. They are included here because, in my opinion, they can spark important reflection. Click on a quote image for further discussion.
Alex Gillespie Enrico Gnaulati Temple Grandin Stanley I. Greenspan Paul E. McGhee Barry M. Prizant
Stuart G. Shanker Steve Silberman
ENRICO GNAULATI
”Insurance reimbursement systems are set up to reward psychiatrists for performing medication evaluations and engaging in brief check-ins instead of time-consuming psychotherapy.”
Gnaulati, Enrico (2013) Back to normal. Beacon Press: Boston, Massachusetts. p. 6.
”The current generation of psychologists are being encouraged to utilize only what are called "evidence-based treatments." These are interventions university-based academic psychologists have found to be effective in controlled studies.”
Gnaulati, Enrico (2013) Back to normal. Beacon Press: Boston, Massachusetts. p. 6.
”Genes for emotional disorders passed onto us from our parents are not fixed blueprints guaranteeing we will develop that disorder. They are risk factors. Life experience impacts whether these genes will be turned on or off, and whether risk becomes eventuality.”
Gnaulati, Enrico (2013) Back to normal. Beacon Press: Boston, Massachusetts. p. 21.
”Exclusively blaming children's brains for their emotional problems is every bit as skewed as the past habit of exclusively blaming parnts. The causes of choldren's emotional problems definitely cannot be boiled down to questionable parenting or faulty brains.”
Gnaulati, Enrico (2013) Back to normal. Beacon Press: Boston, Massachusetts. p. 22.
”We forget how liberating and empowering it can be for parents to acknowledge the part they play in their child's problems. Knowing that they have some control can provide parents with a sense of hope. If they can zero in on and correct what they are doing wrong or not doing right, they can make a real impact on their children.”
Gnaulati, Enrico (2013) Back to normal. Beacon Press: Boston, Massachusetts. p. 22.
”It seems, then, that the way our school and mental health systems are set up today necessarily leads to kids being assigned diagnoses to receive the help they need.”
Gnaulati, Enrico (2013) Back to normal. Beacon Press: Boston, Massachusetts. p. 48.
”To obtain intensive and specialized services that are attractive to parents, kids are being assigned ever-more severe diagnoses. There are many unintedded consequences to this.”
Gnaulati, Enrico (2013) Back to normal. Beacon Press: Boston, Massachusetts. p. 48.
”The mere mention of a diagnosis, especially a severe one, primes parents and teachers to accept powerful psychoactive medications as a plausible intervention.”
Gnaulati, Enrico (2013) Back to normal. Beacon Press: Boston, Massachusetts. p. 48.
”Mental health professionals may think they are playing a benign bureaucratic game when they attribute a more severe diagnosis than is warranted to a kid simply to ensure that treatment and services are authorized. but once in a data bank, these diagnoses tend to follow kids.”
Gnaulati, Enrico (2013) Back to normal. Beacon Press: Boston, Massachusetts. p. 48.
