Is It "Just a Phase"?: How to Tell Common Childhood Phases from More Serious Disorders - Hardcover

Swedo, Susan; Leonard, Henrietta L., M.D.

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9780307440501: Is It "Just a Phase"?: How to Tell Common Childhood Phases from More Serious Disorders

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ISBN 10: 0307440508 ISBN 13: 9780307440501

Publisher: Golden Books, 1998

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Describes both common and unusual childhood afflictions and explains when symptoms require professional care

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Review:

"This book will bring comfort to parents who are simply perplexed by their child and helpful strategies for parents confronted with more serious problems."
--Judith Rapoport, M.D., author of The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing

"A must book for parents and anyone who wants to understand children."
--John J. Ratey, M.D., author of Driven to Distraction and Shadow Syndromes

"Parents concerned by the behavior of an overactive, shy, or disobedient child, or troubled by their child's bedwetting or eating problems, can find reassuring, practical advice in this accessible handbook."
--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Dr. Susan Anderson Swedo is a pediatrician, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the head of behavioral pediatrics at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She lives near Washington, D.C., with her husband and three daughters.

Dr. Henrietta L. Leonard is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in practice at Rhode Island Hospital and the training director of the child psychiatry program at Brown University School of Medicine. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband and two sons.

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