100 Questions & Answers About Your Child’s Substance Abuse provides clear, straightforward answers to the most commonly-asked questions about a child’s substance abuse. Written for parents and caregivers as well as pediatricians and inpatient and outpatient treatment facility workers, this easy-to-read guide is an essential quick reference for anyone dealing with childhood substance abuse. Topics include risk factors, alcohol abuse, steroid use, drug abuse, assessment and diagnosis, and treatment.

100 Questions & Answers About Your Child’s Schizophrenia provides clear, straightforward answers to your questions about your child’s schizophrenia. Written by an expert in the field, this practical, easy-to-read guide shows you and your family how to cope with symptoms, where to get the best treatment, what medications are available for this condition, and much more. An indispensible quick reference for anyone facing childhood schizophrenia!

The only volume available to provide the doctor's and patient's view. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this disorder.

Over 2 million children of all ages suffer from depression, ranging from mild and chronic to significant impairment, which can present a huge challenge to parents and other loved ones. 100 Questions & Answers About Your Child’s Depression or Bipolar Disorder provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions posed by parents of kids with depression, suspected depression, or bipolar disorder. This book includes expert advice on highly controversial subjects including use of medication in children and adolescents, suicide, and other issues of acute importance to parents.

EMPOWER YOURSELF! Childhood obesity has become a very common condition and can often lead to serious physical and emotional complications as the child grows up. If you are the parent, caregiver, or loved one of a child who is battling obesity, 100 Questions & Answers About Your Child’s Obesity can offer help. This book is an authoritative and user-friendly guide that will enhance your knowledge of this condition and answer your questions about causes, diagnosis, treatment options, and the prognosis for children with obesity. Written by a gastroenterologist/pharmacologist and a child psychiatrist, and with contributions from actual parents of overweight children, this book is an excellent resource of learning about how to live a healthier lifestyle and to cope with the medical, emotional, and everyday aspects of childhood obesity.

Completely revised and updated, 100 Questions & Answers About Your Child’s ADHD: Preschool to College, Second Edition is a comprehensive, practical guide for parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Discussing both medical and psycho-social aspects of the condition, Dr. Nass and Dr. Leventhal provide an authoritative yet compassionate explanation of treating this condition and teaching your child strategies for living -- and learning -- with ADHD. Comments from parents of children with ADHD bring a first-person perspective to this invaluable resource. 100 Questions & Answers About Your Child’s ADHD: Preschool to College, Second Edition offers parents a helping hand in coping with the demands of raising a child with ADHD, and setting their children on a course for success in their development, education, and careers.

Now in an easy-to-read, larger Deluxe format, the Tarascon Pediatric Psychiatrica is filled with tables and charts, providing facts and treatment options for common psychological disorders from infancy to adolescence. This must-have clinical resource includes vital information on infant, child and adolescent disorder classification and treatment, epidemiology and biostatistics, human development, diagnostic evaluation, psychopharmacology, management of psychiatric medical emergencies and more. The Tarascon Pediatric Psychiatrica is the ultimate portable reference for the busy psychiatrist, psychologist, primary care physician or other health care professionals in the field of pediatric psychiatry.