Lonely, Sad, and Angry: A Parent's Guide to Depression in Children and Adolescents - Hardcover

Ingersoll, Barbara D.; Goldstein, Sam

 
9780385476416: Lonely, Sad, and Angry: A Parent's Guide to Depression in Children and Adolescents

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Two authorities on troubled children explain how to identify depression in children and adolescents, discuss its causes, and address treatment alternatives, including what parents and teachers can do at home and in the community to help depressed youngsters. Tour.

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Barbara D. Ingersoll is the clinical director of Montgomery Child and Family Health Services in Bethesda, Maryland.

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experience occasional feelings of loneliness, sadness, and anger. However, when these feelings are so strong and so prolonged that they appear to overwhelm the child, the possibility of childhood depression must be considered.



In Lonely, Sad And Angry, authors Barbara D. Ingersoll and Sam Goldstein define depression in straightforward terms and explain how depression differs from the normal "ups and downs" of life. They describe what kinds of behaviors signal depression in children and adolescents and explain how to tell if a child or adolescent is depressed. They discuss the causes of depression and examine treatment options with an eye toward helping parents decide which treatment--medical, psychological, and environmental--might be most beneficial to a depressed youngster. Detailed information is provided about what parents and teachers can do to help depressed children at home, in school, and in the community. The book includes guidelines for what

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