If Your Adolescent Has Schizophrenia: An Essential Resource for Parents (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands’ Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
If Your Adolescent Has Schizophrenia: An Essential Resource for Parents (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands’ Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
Schizophrenia is a disease that afflicts some 2.2 million persons of all ages. It has a wide-ranging impact on the lives of not just the people who have it, but also the people who love them. In an era of de-institutionalization and managed care, parents and other adults, such as teachers and coaches, will become the first line of defense against this serious disease that typically attacks people the late teens or early twenties.
If Your Adolescent Has Schizophrenia is an informative guide, written specifically to help adults spot the warning signs and seek appropriate treatment for the young people in their lives. Parents will find a clear definition of the disease, including early indicators of the disease as well as information on how to arrange for the proper diagnosis and treatment. Using the experiences of parents with children who have the illness themselves, this book will provide an insiders survival guide for those now facing this illness in their own children.
While enormous strides have been made toward identifying likely causes and effective remedies of schizophrenia in recent decades, no one therapeutic regimen works perfectly in all cases. If Your Adolescent Has Schizophrenia will offer readers trusted information and support that will enable them to confront this disorder head on and get their children meaningful medical and psychosocial help in order to mitigate its effects.
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Jeanie Wolfson said,
Wrote on June 30, 2011 @ 10:16 pm
Good Initial Book for Parents Blindsided by Symptoms or a Diagnosis,
This book is actually quite good for any family initially blind-sided with a Schizophrenia diagnosis for a teen, OR, for parents suspecting that their teen MAY have Schizophrenia.
It is very easy reading, short, and has some good real-life short stories from parents. It is the type of book every Psychiatrist should hand out to a parent with an adolescent newly diagnosed with Schizophrenia, or even if the adolescent POSSIBLY has Schizophrenia.
Because Schizophrenia is such a complex illness, a comprehensive resource would be several volumes, and have to include Torrey’s “Surviving Schizophrenia”. This is a short, easy-to read book that can get a parent mentally prepared for the task ahead. It briefly explains what Schizophrenia is without getting too technical. It gently teaches some terms that will be necessary to know in order to understand anything they will be reading on the Internet or even to talk with the doctors.
It warns parents that they are going to have to fight for the proper care of their child. That is an understatement! It doesn’t go into details of how to do that – how to get 504 plans, accommodations in school, proper medical tests, etc… but it does give the parents a “heads-up” – you have a battle ahead of you, and a lot to learn.
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Wrote on June 30, 2011 @ 10:54 pm
Awesome book!,
This book has provided me with insight to the struggles families face when their child is struggling with Schizophrenia. Wonderful book, written well and a great resource for clinicians and families.
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