If Your Adolescent Has Schizophrenia: An Essential Resource for Parents

by Raquel E. Gur, Ann Braden Johnson

Schizophrenia is a disease that afflicts some 2.2 million persons of all ages. It has a wide-ranging impact on the lives of not just the people who have it, but also the people who love them. In an era of de-institutionalization and managed care, parents and other adults, such as teachers and coaches, will become the first line of defense against this serious disease that typically attacks people the late teens or early twenties.
If Your Adolescent Has Schizophrenia is an informative guide, written specifically to help adults spot the warning signs and seek appropriate treatment for the young people in their lives. Parents will find a clear definition of the disease, including early indicators of the disease as well as information on how to arrange for the proper diagnosis and treatment. Using the experiences of parents with children who have the illness themselves, this book will provide an insiders survival guide for those now facing this illness in their own children.
While enormous strides have been made toward identifying likely causes and effective remedies of schizophrenia in recent decades, no one therapeutic regimen works perfectly in all cases. If Your Adolescent Has Schizophrenia will offer readers trusted information and support that will enable them to confront this disorder head on and get their children meaningful medical and psychosocial help in order to mitigate its effects.

Genres: Mental Health, Nonfiction, Psychology

176 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2006

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very helpful book that provides an ample amount of information for both parents and caretakers of children with schizophrenia. It walks family members through the early stages of the disease, while providing basic tools for proper diagnosis, medication, hospitalization, therapy, and education. Many examples are provided that are written in a way that are easily understood for the average reader. The authors provide advice from other parents of schizophrenic sufferers and remind the reader that he or she is not alone.

I found this book to be very helpful with my resent struggles. My daughter has been having some struggles with school and her schizophrenic paranoia and this book provides helpful coping skills. It is therapeutic to read about how other parents have struggled and survived their children's delusions. I highly recommend this book. It is both thin and an easy read. It has a great deal of useful information that I found myself referring to it recently.

[Diana Lampe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A helpful resource guide for parents whose adolescent has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I’ll be recommending this book to families I see in my practice.

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I honestly didn't know adolescents could fet schizophrenia

[Stanley Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful, I've read lots of books on schizophrenia and this one's one of the more readable ones

[Rebekah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource for anyone looking for support, advice, information and programs.

[Heron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful and insightful book when researching schizoaffective disorder. There were a lot of really beneficial aspects to this book.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has a lot of information for those of us who have children with this illness.