The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with depression.
While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with depression, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific expertise available today—including the newest treatments and medications and the latest research findings on depression—with no-nonsense, hands-on advice from parents who have faced this mood disorder in their own children.
Among other topics, the book addresses the roots of depression, red flags to look out for, treatment options for young people, and practical strategies for helping a teen cope at home and at school. It concludes on a hopeful note, by reviewing the latest scientific evidence on treating depression. A growing body of research now shows that early diagnosis and treatment of depression may reduce the severity of the disease, both now and in the future. Including chapters on sex, drugs, and social media, and life after high school, this book will provide the information and tools parents need to help adolescents achieve the best possible outcome.
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Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, former foreign correspondent, writing consultant, author of several books, and mother of two sons.
Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, former foreign correspondent, writing consultant, author of several books, and mother of two sons.
Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, former foreign correspondent, writing consultant, author of several books, and mother of two sons.
Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, former foreign correspondent, writing consultant, author of several books, and mother of two sons.
Petrea Burchard grew up in northern Illinois, where farm meets university, making her a townie with a love for animals, nature, and books. Petrea's stage experience covers everything from Second City comedy to Shakespeare, and her resume includes television, film, and voice-over work. Along with articles and short stories she has published a novel, Camelot & Vine, and a book of comic essays. When she's not narrating audiobooks, Petrea loves to travel. But a hike in the mountains with her husband and their pit bull, Melly, is as good as a weekend in Paris.