If Your Adolescent Has Schizophrenia: An Essential Resource for Parents (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands' Adolescent Mental Health Initiative) - Couverture souple

Gur, Raquel E.

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ISBN 10 : 019518212X ISBN 13 : 9780195182125

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2006

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Raquel E. Gur, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she has acted as Director of the Neuropsychiatry section and the Schizophrenia Research Center. Ann Braden Johnson, Ph.D., is a freelance medical writer and a psychotherapist by training.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019518212X
• ISBN 13: 9780195182125
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible