Helping Your Child Cope with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts, Revised Edition (The Jossey-Bass Psychology Series) - Softcover

Shamoo, Tonia K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787908444 ISBN 13: 9780787908447

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

Support for Parents Whose Children are Depressed Contrary to popular belief, young children do get seriously depressed, and many try to kill themselves. In Helping Your Child Cope with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts the authors, Shamoo and Patros, show parents: how to learn to talk, listen, and communicate effectively with a depressed child; what situations can cause a child or adolescent to wish to commit suicide; what signs to watch for; myths and misinformation about suicide; how to determine the risk of suicide; and How to intervene.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

No five-year-old child would try to kill himself, right?
Contrary to popular belief, young children do get seriously depressed, and many try to kill themselves. Each day more than one thousand teenagers try to kill themselves, and every ninety minutes one succeeds. There is also a dramatic upswing in the number of children aged five to foutreen who try to take theeir own lives.
but there is help for parents whose children are depressed and may be suicidal. In Helping Your Child Cope with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts Shamoo and Patros show parents:
How to lear to talk, listen, and communicate effectively with a depressed child
What situations can cause a child or adolescent to wish to commit suicide\\
What signs to watch for
Myths and misinformation about suicide
How to determine the risk of suicide
How to intervene

About the Author:

TONIA K. SHAMOO Ph.D., is a psychologist in private practice specializing in suicide and depression and a psychological consultant for the Durham, Connecticut, Board of Education. PHILIP G. PATROS is a practicing psychologist and professor emeritus at Southern Connecticut State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0787908444
• ISBN 13: 9780787908447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192