Children and adolescents with mental illness : a parents guide /

Written by professionals and parents, Children with Epilepsy contains information for parents of epileptic children. Though the book includes some medical information, it emphasizes information gathering, choosing and communicating with doctors and other professionals, legal rights and advocacy, educational rights and options, parent-support networks, and vocational planning. Interspersed throughout are parents' comments, which concretize the many ways families must cope. A beginning source for parents. Includes extensive bibliography and services resource list. Children and Adolescents with Mental Illness is a similar collection that addresses a family's needs when a child develops a mental illness. There are chapters on symptoms and diagnosis, therapy and hospitalization, education, long-term planning, and teen suicide. Frank parental observations accompany each chapter. The emphasis is on negotiating the complex therapeutic, financial, and social dilemmas that accompany a diagnosis of mental illness. Includes bibliographies, services resource list, and an appendix on medications. These helpful books address the grieving process and stress how to attain the best possible life for one's handicapped child. They make the point that parents are a child's strongest advocates and that informed parents as a group can produce beneficial social changes. Recommended for families and professionals. Amy Goffman, Children's Rehabilitation Ctr., Charlottesville, Va. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.