Help Me, I'm Sad: Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression (Paperback)

David G. Fassler

ISBN 10: 0140267638 / ISBN 13: 9780140267631

Verlag: Penguin Books, Hawthorn, 1997

Beschreibung

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Help Me, I'm Sad: Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression (Paperback)
• Verlag: Penguin Books, Hawthorn
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0140267638
• ISBN-13: 9780140267631
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

Until the early 1980s, there was no official diagnosis for depression in children. But children can, and do, become depressed. In fact, the National Institute of Mental Health now estimates that 2.5 million youngsters under eighteen have experienced clinical depression--and the real number may be higher still.

"Help Me, I'm Sad" discusses how to tell if your child is at risk; how to spot symptoms; depression's link with other problems and its impact on the family; teen suicide; finding the right diagnosis, therapist, and treatment; and what you can do to help. For parents who have—or suspect they may have—depressed children, here is practical, easy-to-understand information from a compassionate and trustworthy source.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David G. Fassler, M.D. practices psychiatry in Burlington, Vermont, where he is clinical director of Otter Creek Associates. He is also the chief of child and adolescent psychiatry for the Choate Health Systems in Massachusetts. He is a frequent guest on Good Morning, America and is regularly cited in such major magazines as Family Circle, Woman's Day, and Health.