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One in eight high school students is depressed. But depression in teenagers can be deceptive, and authorities estimate that a huge number of depressed teens are undiagnosed. Adults may mistake symptoms as "typical" teen angst, anger, or anxiety. Or the teen may mask the symptoms with high-energy activity.
For parents who suspect their teen is depressed, the system often fails the family. Insurance coverage for treatment ends too soon, there's a months-long wait to see an adolescent therapist, or long-term follow-up is insufficient.
This means parents must take charge of their child's health to reinforce, extend, and monitor treatment and its aftermath. The good news is they can do it--because parents know their child best.
Although a medical doctor, Dr. Berlinger initially missed the signs of his own son's depression. By combining his parental love with his scientific skills, he developed a set of techniques to lead his son out of depression. Now he shares his 10 Parental Partnering Strategies to help parents rescue their teen from depression--based on his own experiences, nearly 100 interviews with parents of depressed teens, and interviews with mental health professionals.
Increasingly, doctors are asking parents to partner with them to help children get healthy and stay healthy. Partnering has been proven effective in the treatment of other serious emotional illnesses such as anorexia nervosa.
Parents can use Dr. Berlinger's strategies to help distinguish depression from moodiness; be alert to suicide risk; monitor medication effectiveness; help the teen combat negative thinking; organize activities to offset depression; and spot signs of relapse during tense times in their child's life, including exams, relationship breakups, or starting college or a job.
Both a family survival story and a practical guide, this book affirms parents' unique power to help teens overcome depression.
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El Maddox descobreix el camí. El Maddox va sobreviure al terrible incendi que va matar els seus pares. Ara, nou anys després, acaba de descobrir que les estrelles li parlen i poden marcar els seus passos... I al seu darrere, a d'altres que ell haurà de guiar.
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Kirkus Review
Dr. Berlinger, a bioethicist and former surgeon, began studying teenage depression in depth when his own son began exhibiting signs that something was wrong. Until age 14, he'd been a happy kid; then, suddenly, he wasn't. After exploring local treatment options, Dr. Berlinger realized that the best tactic for helping his son was to become a parental partner. Rather than watch others try to cure what ailed him, the author, through trial and error based on common sense and his own medical training, came up with a highly involved routine to help pull his son back from the well of depression. Here, he shares his insights. First, he discusses how to distinguish depression from run-of-the-mill irritability, noting that although many teenagers are moody, being angry and irritable at all times is out of the ordinary. Next, he runs through the problems associated with depression: anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse and the like. The author then offers a number of strategies for the concerned parent: working with the family physician, the right ways to find a therapist, talking and listening. For parents with troubled teens, Dr. Berlinger's firsthand knowledge, coupled with a soothing tone, should be very welcome. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
Books on teens and depression continue to be churned out, alerting parents to the fact that adolescent depression may masquerade as surliness or drug use, telling them about the choices in medication and therapy, and warning about the dangers of suicide. Rescuing fits in this mold, as it tells how Berlinger, a bioethicist and pathologist, became a "parental partner" in his son's struggle with depression. He emphasizes the scary reality that there aren't enough adolescent psychologists and psychiatrists in the country to treat all of our troubled kids, so parents must often provide most of the help and guidance for their child. His reassuring tone and realistic presentation of the ups and downs of dealing with a mentally ill teenager is indeed reassuring. If your library needs material on this topic, this is one of several good choices (see also Miriam Kaufman's Overcoming Teen Depression: A Guide for Parents and Francis Mark Mondimore's Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents). Therapist Machoian builds on the body of research that inspired Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, arguing that the supposed "silencing" of girls that occurs at puberty leads to clinical depression. However, the only evidence she offers are interviews with girls, so readers have no way of knowing whether the information is the result of editing or unconscious leading on the part of the therapist. Besides crafts projects (e.g., make a collage to express one's identity), Machoian doesn't offer much concrete advice on how to help depressed girls. This is definitely not the best book for concerned parents; Pipher writes more eloquently. A marginal purchase for libraries.-Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.