Parent, Child, and Adolescent
Understanding and Care
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Parents wish to perform as well as they can on behalf of their children. But families across America are beset with concerns regarding violence, drugs, mental illness, teenage pregnancies, learning problems, and school dropouts.
This book explains the vectors and influences that shape our children's lives. It provides explanations and approaches to raising emotionally healthy children. Yet, not all children will grow without emotional or stressful impositions on their development. Their families can benefit from the knowledge in dealing with the problems that may arise as the child grows through the successive stages of development.
Each threshold holds both promises and dangers for the outcomes into adulthood. While they root some problems that appear in a genetic predisposition to illness, others derive from chemical imbalances, environmental stresses, or the exaggerated anxieties imposed by peers or relationships.
An intelligent understanding of the normal processes of development can help us to bolster the child's self-esteem and increase the potentials inherent in all of our children. When an illness or disorder arises, knowing about the mechanisms which drive the symptoms can aid in the recovery.
Every parent has the capacity to be a healer in concert with the professionals dealing with disorders.
This book leads the parent, the relative, the friend, through a well-written approach to understanding the healthy as well as the disturbed aspects of childhood and adolescence.
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Here is a handbook that gives the reasons for and the answers to the problems that confront parents, children, and adolescents.
Dr. Victor Uribe, a noted adult, adolescent, and child psychiatrist, draws on his many years of experience to clearly and non-judgmentally examine family interactions and offer solutions to problems that face all families. Some of the topics covered include:
* Why children behave as they do
* Why adolescents behave as they do
* Sexuality
* Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
* Disorders of eating habits and nutrition
* Normal and abnormal anxiety
* Panic disorder
* Self-abusive drug misuse
* Lists of addictive drugs, their street names, and effects
* Self-abusive alcohol misuse
* Mood disorders in children and adolescents
* Choosing a therapist
* And much, much more!
About the Author
Victor M. Uribe, M.D. has practiced adult, child, adolescent, and family psychiatry for over twenty years. He was trained in general psychiatry at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute in Chicago, and received his fellowship training in child, adolescent, and family psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is a Fellow and a Diplomate of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Fellow and a Certified Psychoanalyst of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He has taught in the psychiatric departments of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Loyola University of Chicago; has been a consultant to private and governmental facilities, a local, national and international lecturer, medical director of psychiatric programs, a participant in Spanish speaking radio programs in Chicago, and author of many publications. He is currently in private practice in Chicago.