Medicating Young Minds: How to Know if Psychiatric Drugs Will Help or Hurt Your Child by Glen R. Elliott M.D. Ph.D Sales Rank: 753967 $24.95 At Amazon on 11-29-2008.

Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: STC Healthy Living; 1 edition June 1, 2006 Language: English ISBN-10: 1584794895 ISBN-13: 978-1584794899 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds Product Description "Treating a child with drugs before it's clear what is going on is worse than not treating a child at all. Let's face it: We are experimenting on these kids without tracking the results."-Glen Elliott, M.D., Ph.D. When you consider that 10 million children under the age of 18, including a growing number of preschoolers, are on anti-depressants and another 7 million are on stimulants for attention problems, it becomes obvious why Dr. Elliott has written this guide for parents who feel "they have no choice." As the nation's leading expert on psychiatric disorders in children and the leading researcher on the effects of psychiatric drugs on kids, Dr. Elliott says that doctors and even teachers are too quick to recommend medicating young minds rather than taking the necessary steps to find out if drugs are even necessary.Medicating Young Minds tells parents what to expect, the questions to ask, the treatment they deserve from a concerned doctor, and even what tests to demand to make sure that drugs are the best recourse. Parents do have a choice, says Dr. Elliott, and this book empowers parents to make their own decisions. With detailed, step-by-step advice, he counsels parents on how to become active and informed participants in the diagnostic and treatment process. The long-term consequences of putting kids on psychiatric drugs are still unknown, and Medicating Young Minds will be of critical interest to all parents, teachers, and doctors concerned with the welfare of children. About The Author Glen R. Elliott , M.D., Ph.D., is director of the Children's Center at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute in San Francisco and a leading expert on behavioral problems in children. He has a doctorate degree in psychopharmacology and has published dozens of studies on psychiatric drugs and adolescents. He is frequently featured in the media as an expert commentator on this issue, including a 2003 cover story in Time magazine, "Are We Giving Kids To Many Drugs?" He lives in San Francisco. Customer Reviews & Comments This is a very well organized and presented summary of current practice in child psychiatry, clearly written for the lay person. It gives guidelines for finding help for you and your child and a clear summary of the four major groups of behavioral and mood disorders. It also discusses the medications used to treat these various types of disorders as well as some alternative, non-drug therapies. I highly recommend this book to parents who are beginning to wonder if their child's problem behavior is more than just simple misbehavior. Having been on this road for 9 years now, I can see where our family was pushed in directions that were not the best for my child, and I plan to use the information in this book to get my son and his treatments re-assessed. Without a helpful book like this one we were subjected to some of the mistakenly but commonly practiced diagnostic methodology that may not have been the best choice for us. Unfortunately, this book also confirms what I have feared, that my worries over the future of my bipolar/ODD son are indeed justified and his life and mine will never be an easy one. One word of warning: this book may frighten you because it makes it clear how little we know about the causes of mood and behavioral disorders, as well as how little we know about how and why psychoactive medications do or do not work. Do not let that stop you from using medications if that seems to be the only way to relieve your child's mental and social pain. Huge progress has been made in psychiatry since the 1960's but an immense amount of work still needs to be done. Fortunately, this book clearly lays out what can be done at this time to help "problem" kids. On the other hand, unfortunately it also shows where research and knowledge are lacking. I highly recommend this book both for parents who are beginning to wonder if they might be bad parents because their child just can't behave, as well as for families already entangled in the mental health system. Medicating Young Minds: How to Know if Psychiatric Drugs Will Help or Hurt Your Child Available from Amazon Price: $24.95 Updated on 11-29-2008.

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