100 Questions & Answers About Your Child's Depression Or Bipolar Disorder


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Over 2 million children of all ages suffer from depression, ranging from mild and chronic to significant impairment, which can present a huge challenge to parents and other loved ones. 100 Questions & Answers About Your Child’s Depression or Bipolar Disorder provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions posed by parents of kids with depression, suspected depression, or bipolar disorder. This book includes expert advice on highly controversial subjects including use of medication in children and adolescents, suicide, and other issues of acute importance to parents.




100 Questions & Answers About Your Child's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder


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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can be a devastating problem not just for children but also for parents, families, and friends. 100 Questions & Answers About Your Child's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a user-friendly guide that will enhance your knowledge of the disease and answer your questions about diagnosis, cause, treatment, and prognosis for children with OCD. Written by an expert psychologist, along with contributions from actual parents, this book is an excellent resource for learning and coping with the medical and emotional effects on a child with OCD.




100 Questions & Answers About Uterine Cancer


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Whether you are a newly diagnosed uterine cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. 100 Questions and Answers About Uterine Cancer addresses the issues that are specific to the woman with uterine cancer. Written by two renowned gynecologic oncologists and including “insider” advice from an actual patient, this book gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about uterine cancer. It explains important facts about symptoms and the diagnosis process, treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, coping strategies, and sources of patient and family support. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone dealing with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.




100 Questions & Answers About Breast Cancer Sensuality, Sexuality and Intimacy


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There are almost 200,000 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed in the United States every year. Virtually all of the women who undergo treatment are plagued by questions of intimacy, sexuality, and personal and professional relationships. 100 Questions and Answers About Breast Cancer: Sensuality, Sexuality and Intimacy provides authoritative answers to the most common questions asked by women and their partners when coping with intimacy after the trauma of breast cancer. Written by renowned female sexuality and breast cancer physicians, this book offers encouragement and reassurance to those struggling to strengthen and rebuild relationships during and after breast cancer treatment. It is an invaluable guide for anyone dealing with the physical and emotional repercussions of this disease.




Tarascon Pediatric Psychiatrica


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Now in an easy-to-read, larger Deluxe format, the Tarascon Pediatric Psychiatrica is filled with tables and charts, providing facts and treatment options for common psychological disorders from infancy to adolescence. This must-have clinical resource includes vital information on infant, child and adolescent disorder classification and treatment, epidemiology and biostatistics, human development, diagnostic evaluation, psychopharmacology, management of psychiatric medical emergencies and more. The Tarascon Pediatric Psychiatrica is the ultimate portable reference for the busy psychiatrist, psychologist, primary care physician or other health care professionals in the field of pediatric psychiatry.




100 Questions & Answers About Schizophrenia


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Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental illness that can be devastating for patients and their loved ones. Whether you are a newly diagnosed patient or a relative of someone suffering from this condition, this book offers help. 100 Questions & Answers About Schizophrenia: Painful Minds, Third Edition provides authoritative, practical answers to your questions about symptoms, diagnosis, treatment options, sources of support, and much more. Expert psychiatrist Dr. Lynn E. DeLisi has updated her book with new facts, statistics, and helpful information that many patients and their families seek, including new progress in genetics, updates on medication use and other new treatments, new emphasis on early detection and treatment, as well as new diagnostic structures with DSM-V, and for research, the RDoC. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical, mental, and emotional turmoil of schizophrenia.




100 Questions & Answers about Your Child's Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder


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The only volume available to provide the doctor's and patient's view. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this disorder.




100 Questions & Answers About Your Child's Substance Abuse


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100 Questions & Answers About Your Child’s Substance Abuse provides clear, straightforward answers to the most commonly-asked questions about a child’s substance abuse. Written for parents and caregivers as well as pediatricians and inpatient and outpatient treatment facility workers, this easy-to-read guide is an essential quick reference for anyone dealing with childhood substance abuse. Topics include risk factors, alcohol abuse, steroid use, drug abuse, assessment and diagnosis, and treatment.




Questions & Answers About Human Papilloma Virus(HPV)


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Empower Yourself! Written by two expert physicians in the field, Questions & Answers About Human Papilloma Virus(HPV) provides authoritative answers to the most commonly asked questions about HPV. This concise guide features current, easy-to-understand information on the virus, related cancers and other diseases, vaccination, and prevention. Also included is a chapter for men diagnosed with the disease. Indispensible reading for parents of adolescent girls, as well as newly diagnosed patients, this essential book dispels common myths about the HPV and gives readers the tools they need to reclaim their health.