It's Never Just a Phase has the answers that parents, teachers, and health-care providers are seeking for childhood development and behaviour problems. Swedo and Leonard draw guidelines for determining when behaviour is a developmental phase and when it is a cause for concern. It's Never Just a Phase enables parents to actively help their child while it outlines appropriate treatments for the more serious disorders. This important contribution to parenting is an indispensable tool for raising healthy children in difficult times.Examines the challenges facing a child from toddlerhood through adolescence such as social phobias, learning disabilities, and depression.
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Parents concerned by the behavior of an overactive, shy or disobedient child, or troubled by their child's bedwetting or eating problems, can find reassuring, practical advice in this accessible handbook. Swedo, head of behavioral pediatrics at the National Institutes of Mental Health, and Leonard, a child psychiatrist and professor at Brown University School of Medicine, combine their expertise to aid parents in helping their toddler or teen through difficult stages in development. Each chapter in Part 1 includes brief stories that illustrate particular behaviors, such as eating problems, thumb-sucking or moodiness, in both a normal child and a problem child. The stories are followed by suggestions on what parents can do to help, and what help they can expect from teachers and doctors. Part 2 focuses on those problem behaviors that are not merely passing phases but symptoms of psychiatric disorders requiring therapeutic intervention. Such conditions as anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder are explained in clear language. Brief sets of questions assist parents in deciding whether their child fits the description or may have some related condition; the authors then discuss therapy options and offer a resource list of professional organizations.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"This book will bring comfort to parents who are simply perplexed by their child and helpful strategies for parents confronted with more serious problems."
--Judith Rapoport, M.D., author of The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing
"A must book for parents and anyone who wants to understand children."
--John J. Ratey, M.D., author of Driven to Distraction and Shadow Syndromes
"Parents concerned by the behavior of an overactive, shy, or disobedient child, or troubled by their child's bedwetting or eating problems, can find reassuring, practical advice in this accessible handbook."
--Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
--Judith Rapoport, M.D., author of The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing
"A must book for parents and anyone who wants to understand children."
--John J. Ratey, M.D., author of Driven to Distraction and Shadow Syndromes
"Parents concerned by the behavior of an overactive, shy, or disobedient child, or troubled by their child's bedwetting or eating problems, can find reassuring, practical advice in this accessible handbook."
--Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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This book is extremely well written and is a must have for anyfamily's bookshelves. It details childhood problems and helps parentsdecipher when their child's problems are "more than just a phase". I found it to be a huge help. Not only does this book discuss the symptoms of phases; it also describes how to treat these "phases". I really recommend this book for all parents, with children of any age.
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I especially liked the examples and vignettes given by the author(s). After reading this book, I was able to better recognize and deal with the behaviors my children were exhibiting. Thanks for a tremendous help and guide!
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- Parenting Your Teenager by David Elkind on page 18, and page 159
- The Optimistic Child: Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resilience by Martin E. Seligman on page 158, and page 304
- Beyond Shyness: How to Conquer Social Anxieties by Jonathan Berent on page 135, and page 288
- Learning Disabilities: The Interaction of Learner, Task, and Setting (4th Edition) by Corinne Roth Smith on page 196, and page 207
- Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning Disabilities: Reality, Myths, and Controversial Treatments by Barbara Ingersoll on page 190, and page 191
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