Pills Are Not for Preschoolers A Drug-Free Approach for Troubled Kids

by Wedge, Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780393343168
• ISBN10: 0393343162
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-27
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Where can parents turn when their child exhibits disturbing behavior and they want to avoid psychiatric labels and drugs? Pills Are Not for Preschoolers presents a much-needed alternative: child-focused family therapy-a brief, effective approach that involves family members in the child's therapy. A family therapist for more than twenty years, Marilyn Wedge treats children's problems not as biologically determined disorders but as responses to relationships in their lives that can be altered with the help of a therapist. Parents can now respond to symptoms of ADHD, depression, and anxiety with respectful family prescriptives, not -prescriptions-and Wedge brilliantly shows us how easy it can be to understand and implement her pathbreaking approach. Like a clever detective, [Wedge] allows the child to guide her to the heart of a family's problems.-Publishers Weekly I highly recommend this book to doctors, mental health professionals, educators, and parents.-Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia

Author Biography

Marilyn Wedge has a PhD from the University of Chicago, where she worked with Dr. Heinz Kohut and Dr. Ernest Wolf, pioneers in the field of self-psychology. She is a family therapist in private practice in Westlake Village, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Do No Harm	p. 1
Beyond Psychiatric Labels: What Stories Tell Us	p. 9
A New Frame: Strategic Child-Focused Family Therapy	p. 32
Listening to Children	p. 56
Metaphor	p. 78
Invisible Alliances	p. 104
Reading by Not Reading: The Power of Paradox	p. 136
Medication: The Promise and the Peril	p. 155
Threshold Kids: A Passage in Search of a Rite	p. 182
From Biology to Benevolence	p. 201
Appendix. How to Find a Family Therapist	p. 220
Acknowledgments	p. 225
Notes	p. 227
References	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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