Uncommon Sense

About the Book

About the Author

Dr. Badoy is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

This book explores the four different perspectives of Disease, Traits, Life Story, and Behaviors in the causation of cognitive, emotional, interpersonal, and behavioral dysfunction in children and adolescents.

It elaborates on The Perspectives of Psychiatry as formulated by Johns Hopkins psychiatrists Drs. Paul Mc Hugh and Phillip Slavney in their book under the same title by utilizing a developmental approach that considers the unique challenges encountered in the context of childhood and adolescent development.

It highlights, among other things, the potential problems and risks that can arise when there is an overreliance on psychiatric medications to treat even those problems that will not respond to medications such as the various learning disorders or as an attempt to make a person make better choices when that person wants to make bad ones.