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Perseus Books Group
March 2006
On Sale: March 14, 2006
268 pages
ISBN: 1593153597
EAN: 9781593153595
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Self-Help | Non-Fiction
In Your Child in the Balance, child psychiatrist,
Kevin Kalikow examines the highly topical and thorny
question of whether and when to prescribe psychiatric
medication to children. As parents, are we too ready to run
to our pediatrician for Ritalin when our child shows the
first sign of inattention at school? Or do we instead shy
away from our doctor's recommendation to consider an
anti-depressant for a chronically sad and withdrawn
teenager? Among the ever-growing outcry that psychiatric
medicines are over-prescribed to children and adolescents
today, how is a parent to know whether medication is the
right treatment for their troubled child? Dr. Kalikow
tackles these questions with the sensitivity and insight of
years of experience helping families through the thicket of
research and opinion to find the right answer for their
child. Through many colorful vignettes, he explores our
efforts to protect our children from the inevitable hurts
and disappointments of childhood, and the role that
medication can play in that attempt. On the other side,
Kalikow shows us our determination to have our children
succeed or fail on their own, the way we had to do, even to
the point of refusing the medication that might help them
overcome a serious and potentially chronic disability.
Dr. Kalikow guides readers through the maze of
possible treatment decisions--the many different families of
psychiatric medication, alternative treatments including
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and perhaps the most difficult
decision of no treatment at all. He closes the book by
examining one family's difficult journey to the decision to
medicate their acutely anxious daughter. Your
Child in the Balance: An Insider's Guide to the Psychiatric
Medicine Dilemma is an important and timely book that
will hit home to every parent who has seen their child in
pain and asked themselves, "I wonder if medication might help."
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