Depression and Your Child - A Guide for Parents and Caregivers

A psychologist draws on her own childhood struggles with depression and her clinical experiences treating depressed children to offer an explanation of pediatric depression and its treatments.

List of contents

Introduction
1: Understanding Child Development
2: Defining Depression in Childhood
3: Diagnosing Pediatric Depression
4: Treatments for Pediatric Depression
5: Holistic Approaches to Depression
6: Self-Harm and Suicide
7: My Child is Diagnosed, Now What?
8: Tips for Parenting Your Depressed Child
9: 20 Depression Myths Every Parent Should Know
10: Planning for the Future
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Glossary
Footnotes
Bibliography

About the author

Deborah Serani, PsyD, is a go-to media expert on a variety of psychological issues. Her interviews can be found in ABC News, Newsday, Women’s Health & Fitness, The Chicago Tribune, The Associated Press, and affiliate radio station programs at CBS and NPR, just to name a few. She is a ShareCare Expert for Dr. Oz, writes for Psychology Today, helms the Ask the Therapist column for Esperanza Magazine and has worked as a technical advisor for the NBC television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. A licensed psychologist in practice over twenty years, Serani is also an adjunct professor at Adelphi University and author of the award-winning book Living with Depression (Rowman & Littlefield) and Depression and Your Child (Rowman & Littlefield). Most recently, she has published a series of children’s books addressing mental health.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Serani, Serani Deborah
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2015
• EAN: 9781442244467
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4446-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Clinical psychology, Abnormal psychology, Advice on parenting, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Parenting: advice and issues, Paediatric medicine, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General, child depression