Help your Child or Teen Get Back On Track What Parents and Professionals Can Do for Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems Kenneth H. Talan, M.D.

Hardback, 288pp

Help Your Child or Teen get Back on Track offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems.

The book covers topics that would be discussed during a consultation with a child psychiatrist. The first section offers practical guidance and ideas to help parents understand their child's problems and learn to distinguish between normal disruption and that which warrants professional treatment. The second section of the book includes useful information for those parents who are considering, seeking, or already involved with professional help for their child.

Essential reading for parents who are worried about a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems, this book is also a useful resource for social workers, psychologists, school counselors, pediatricians, and adult psychiatrists.

 contents

Introduction.

Section I. Parents' Interventions.
1. What to Do When You Think Your Child Has a Problem.
2. The Red Flags: An Alphabetical List of Symptoms.
3. Disruptions in Development: The Whole Child.
4. Ten Steps to Help Your Child Get Back on Track.
5. Coping With Your Feelings When Your Child Suffers.

Section II. Professionals' Interventions.
6. Evaluation and Testing: Why, What, Who, and Where?
7. Questions about Treatment: Who are the Helpers and Where are They?
8. Psychotherapy and Its Side Effects.
9. Medications and Their Side Effects.
10. Complementary and Alternative Therapies and Their Side Effects.
11. The Role of Play in Individual Psychotherapy from Childhood to Adolescence.
12. Costs of Treatment: Money, Energy, and Time.

Appendix: Self Help Resources.
References.
Subject index.
Author index.