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When your child or adolescent is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, what can you do to help him or her get better? Which therapeutic approach is best to help your child? In this book, a psychiatrist and a psychologist, both specializing in mood disorders, offer a comprehensive overview of the available treatment options and most effective parenting strategies you can use to deal with this condition.
In addition to finding a thorough explanation of the often necessary medical treatments for bipolar disorder, you'll learn the importance of emotion regulation for children with this condition. The book offers techniques for dealing with outbursts of rage, anger, and irritability in your child, as well as ways to handle sleep disorders, among the most common symptoms of childhood bipolar disorder. You'll also find information relevant to adolescents, such as substance abuse and eating disorders, as well as ways to integrate bipolar care with your own needs and those of the rest of your family.
Author Notes
Gianni L. Faedda, MD, is founder and director of the Lucio Bini Mood Disorders Center of New York
Nancy B. Austin, PSY.D., is associate director of the Lucio Bini Mood Disorders Center of New York
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Library Journal Review
Formerly known as manic-depressive illness, bipolar disorder (BPD) has become a headliner for pharmaceutical houses, psychiatric research and publications, and, now, books for the general public. But only in the last decade has the disorder been studied and treated extensively in the child and adolescent population, where it may account for as many as a third of those diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and half of all those diagnosed with depression. Well-informed parents, psychiatrists and pediatricians, and teachers and school administrators are indispensable to monitoring the disorder, hence the need for good books like these. The first author listed for each book, Demitri F. Papolos (psychiatry, Albert Einstein Coll. of Medicine, NY; codirector, Prog. in Behavioral Genetics) and Faedda, are New York psychiatrists; their coauthors, Janice Papolos and Austin, are a writer and a child psychologist, respectively. Somewhat more technical, The Bipolar Child includes a substantial chapter on genetics. Parenting a Bipolar Child primarily addresses families of patients and states correctly that psychotherapy is crucial to the success of overall treatment. These two books are highly recommended for general libraries and health collections, along with two more that are broader in scope: Dwight L. Evans and Linda Wasmer Andrews's If Your Adolescent Has Depression or Bipolar Disorder and and Glen R. Elliot's Medicating Young Minds. E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1 Growing Up with Bipolar Disorder | p. 5 |
| 2 Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder | p. 15 |
| 3 Bipolar Disorder in Children | p. 29 |
| 4 Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents | p. 55 |
| 5 Clinical Assessment | p. 67 |
| 6 Diagnostic Overlap and Multiple Diagnoses | p. 77 |
| 7 Treatment Overview | p. 95 |
| 8 Medication Choices | p. 115 |
| 9 Sleep Disorders | p. 143 |
| 10 Living with a Bipolar Child | p. 155 |
| 11 Irritability: What to Do? | p. 177 |
| 12 Psychotherapy | p. 197 |
| 13 School Decisions | p. 221 |
| 14 Crisis Management | p. 241 |
| Epilogue | p. 253 |
| Appendix I p. 257 | |
| Appendix II p. 265 | |
| Appendix III Web Sites and Other Resources | p. 269 |
| References | p. 273 |
