Preventing Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorders

What are Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders? Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is a general term that basically includes two specific disorders that affect a fetus because the mother drinks alcohol between the child’s conception and birth.  The specific disorders are: (a) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Abnormal development of the fetus’s face and sometimes internal organs, hands, […]

Are We Over-Diagnosing Mental Health Problems?

It may appear to the lay person that Americans are being over diagnosed with having mental health problems. However, once you research the issue to discover if this hypothesis is correct you realize this is not the case. Let’s look at the issue from an historical perspective. Dorothea Dix was a mental health reformer and […]