Raising Depression Free Children: A Parent's Guide to Prevention and Early Intervention - Softcover

Panula Hockey, Kathleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592850421 ISBN 13: 9781592850426

Verlag: Hazelden Publishing, 2003

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Parents will find the latest information about childhood depression in this much-needed guide, as well as practical, everyday strategies to reduce your child's risk of developing the life-threatening disease.

One of the great tragedies of our time is that childhood depression is increasing dramatically. The World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2020, when today's children reach adulthood, depression will rank as the second leading cause of "lost years of healthy life" behind only heart disease. Today's parents have cause for hope, however. Researchers are discovering that some depressions may be preventable. And new studies are showing that children can be taught, from a very young age, to live optimistically. Parents will find the latest information about childhood depression in this much-needed guide, as well as practical, everyday strategies to reduce your child's risk of developing the life-threatening disease.

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Kathleen Panula Hockey is a licensed Clinical Social worker in private practice in Richland , Washington, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hazelden Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1592850421
• ISBN 13: 9781592850426
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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