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Just Like His Father? Perfect Paperback – September 5, 2006

by Liane J. Leedom (Author), M.D. (Author)

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Your child is at risk if he has biologic relatives with ADHD, addiction or antisocial behavior. Recent scientific studies have shown that often these conditions are transmitted genetically in families. About 50% of the risk for these conditions is genetic and 50% is related to a person's early environment. While you can't change your child's genetics you can provide him/her with an environment that protects him from developing these conditions. Dr. Leedom, author, psychiatrist and herself a mother gives you the tools you need to parent an at risk child and provide him/her with the best possible environment. Remember, your at risk child's needs may be different from those of other children!

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Health and Well-Being Publications, LLC
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September 5, 2006
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0977801306
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978-0977801305
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Liane J. Leedom, M.D. is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist and mother of an at risk child. Upon realizing that her own son is at risk, she researched the scientific literature to discover what is known about raising children with genetic risk. She developed a game plan for herself which she shares with parents in this pioneering new book.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Health and Well-Being Publications, LLC (September 5, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Perfect Paperback ‏ : ‎ 245 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0977801306
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0977801305
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces

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VH Brazil

Very Didactic, Useful, Direct, Practical

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2011

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For those that want to dedicate their lives to helping their children be really happy and make others happy, and also that have realised that emotional intelligence is more important than IQ, a great tool to guide you.
Simple measures described in the book may make a lot of difference in your child's future. I'm very happy to have purchased it.

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Natural & Organic Mom

One of best resources for this subject matter!

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2019

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In chapter 3 and learned alot so far.

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Charlotte Smith

Have you seen the price?

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2011

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I bought this book in 2008 from Amazon for the cover price. (Around fourteen dollars.) I am just wondering why the price has skyrocketed to anywhere between forty-five to one hundred fifty dollars. Can anyone explain this to me?

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Granny

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2017

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Outstanding book and in great condition

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2015

Great advices!

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2006

This is a very interesting book that revolves around a crucially important discovery close to my own heart: that biology is not destiny.

Liane Leedom is a psychiatrist who gives a candid account about her realization that at least one of her own children had a strong genetic loading for sociopathic personality disorder and attention deficit disorder. So she set about plowing the scientific literature, as well as using her clinical experience to see whether there was any way to prevent the child from falling victim to a lifetime of personal problems.

The result is a large number of useful practical pieces of advice about helping the child, adolescent and adult at risk of developing a specific psychiatric problem with a strong genetic component. The text is broken up by a great many nicely chosen and appropriate illustrations.

Liane talks about an interesting model, which is that the core problems of antisocial personality disorder are:
1. Poor impulse control
2. An inability to love
3. Poor moral reasoning

This is a novel and interesting way of thinking about the problem that developed out of study of twins that was published last year. None of us yet knows whether this model is accurate, but it does provide a useful framework for some of the advice that follows.

I like this book very much, so why only four stars? I fear that the first chapter may put off many people: it, and indeed much of the book is in serious need of an editor and a proofreader. Throughout the text she usually, but not always, uses bold type for "at risk" so it's difficult to work out why sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn't. Many other things are bolded so it gets a bit confusing.

I like that she has provided some scientific references to support her statements, but sadly they are rather disorganized. Some of the same scientific papers are cited several times and in some places single numbers refer to several citations. A lot of research is mentioned, but I kept wanting Liane to tell me what she thought and how the different pieces of research tied together.

This is a good book as it stands, but unless you really know the field, you may want to skim through the first chapter and head straight for the advice sections. With some editing, proofing and rearranging the book could be excellent.

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Modesty Press

Pretty good advice, not very good philosophy

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2014

What I've read is mostly useful, informed, and intelligent. Unfortunately, it's too late for me. My parents were depressed. My father abused my mother. When I was four years old, my aunt kidnapped me to protect me from my abusive father, but even by then some damage had been done. No matter how smart you are; no matter how well trained you are, you can be fooled by a psychopath predator, as was the author of this book, an intelligent, competent psychiatrist (apparently) who was deceived by a psychopath husband. She is trying to make amends with this book.

I just finished reading the book (I have to get it back quickly to the library I borrowed it from) and as I finished it, my problems with the book became clearer in my mind.

I suspect (and I am probably deluding myself) that I am a psychopath or at least something similar. Some of us crazy and dangerous people are fairly self-aware, and a positive stroke to us would not be amiss. Maybe Liane will get to that. I check in again after I read more. I just felt with so many adulatory reviews a little balance would not be a bad idea.

I just finished reading the book. (I have this on an interlibrary loan and have to get it back to the library by tomorrow or the FBI will be after me [joke, but I do have to get it back]. As I finished the book, the uneasy feeling I have about it became clearer in my mind. Dr. Leedom is a very intelligent and well-informed person and her book has a great deal of useful and intelligent information and guidance.

She also strikes me as in an odd way, a very naïve and innocent person. It may be a completely unjustified leap, but in a way I am not surprised that she married a dangerous and abusive man who got in a lot of trouble and caused harm to her and their children.

Part of this gets tricky because it has to do with religious belief and I am a very strong atheist. On page 164, she tries to be polite and respectful to unbelievers such as myself, but when she says, "Belief in a high purpose for life does not necessarily have to involve belief in God. Even if you don't believe in God, you can still believe in a higher purpose for your own life and the lives of your children," the condescension and distrust of people who don't share her belief system seems to leap out at me.

There are a multitude of problems, both philosophical and practical with such arguments, and similar ones she spouts in places such as page 164 where she gets into addiction and she starts touting fairly standard "12-step" programs against addiction. Without going into a lot of detail here, there are many problems with 12-step programs. They work for some people, but not for all.

To begin with, hard as it is for religious believers to accept, there is not the slightest bit of empirical evidence to indicate that religious belief is anything but total fantasy made up by human imagination. God does not exist. Period.
Second, religious belief does no more to promote love and goodness than any other widespread human value system and ideological system. In the history of all religions, there are widespread examples of caring, altruism, moral guidance, conscience and so on AND there are widespread examples of hate, fear, prejudice, violence, cruelty, and genocide. Check out Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity (to name the six most widely believed religions in the world (and you can trot down a thousand other religious competitors) they all have nobility and virtue and they all have blood and horror in their histories. Idealists such as Dr. Leedom cherrypick the "good" stuff and practice intense "head in the sand" denial about the other part of religion. In Chapter 9 (and other parts) she (correctly, I agree) condemns punishment as a parenting and guidance method. Speaking as a 70-year old atheist who grew up immersed in an overwhelmingly Christian society, I would need an entire state the size of California to list all the times I have encountered Christian parents who engaged in bullying and punitive behavior because they believed that was what "God the stern father" wants them to do.

In a way similar to how Thomas Jefferson wrote his own version of the Bible (trying to expunge the obvious superstition in that book), Dr. Leeson has created her own maternal, kind version of Christianity and trying to cover up the nasty paternalism which pervades the "Abrahamic" religions.

Religious belief has dominated human beings for thousands of years. 80% or so of human beings still believe in a "high purpose" or "higher being" which just does not exist. Atheism is not a belief system in the same way. It doesn't offer a "higher purpose." It just describes the universe more accurately. Humans are gradually sliding into a "post-religious" part of our history. For many reasons, we are in the most dangerous and difficult portion of our species' existence since we wandered around on African savannahs and learned to communicate. For individual parents, especially ones with at-risk children, her book offers a great deal of useful advice and information. From a philosophical and societal point of view, in my opinion, she has relatively little of useful advice to offer.

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Meg Zayan, RDH, MPH, EdD

The content is well written and allows the reader to easily reference main points due to bolded text and chapter ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2014

This book is extremely helpful in understanding characteristics, management and societal perceptions of antisocial behavior and ADHD. It is a practical approach to overcoming obstacles that are indicative of "at risk" children. The content is well written and allows the reader to easily reference main points due to bolded text and chapter titles. The information found in this book is helpful to any parent or loved one responsible for guiding an antisocial and ADHD child through life's many challenges.

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