If Your Adolescent Has Depression or Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents

by Linda Wasmer Andrews and Dwight L. Evans

Book Overview

While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise, readable book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with depression or bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific expertise available today--including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195182103
• ISBN13: 9780195182101
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Nice Little Overview

I honestly think that there is such a vast difference between Depression and Bipolar Disorder, I think they should have just gone ahead and printed two separate books. This book is well-written and easy to read, and short. It provides a quick overview of what these illnesses are, warning signs, an overview of treatments, and getting accommodations at school. I liked the short stories from parents about real-life kids with these disorders, and I liked the one line tipes and summaries on every couple pages, offset in the margins. I was rather shocked that in the short section on dietary supplements they only mention SAM-e and St. John's Wort without mentioning Omega-3 Fatty Acids which HAVE been proven to be of help. It was even mentioned as using as an adjunct with lithium. There also wasn't any emphasis on "sleep hygiene" which is always touted as being so important to success. It is far from a "Bible" of adolescent Depression or Bipolar Disorder, but as I said, it is a nice little overview.