Mental Health for the Whole Child: Moving Young Clients from Disease & Disorder to Balance & Wellness
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (919 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393707970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Shannon, MD, is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado and past president of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. He is the founder of the Wholeness Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, the largest and most comprehensive integrative mental health clinic in the U.S. Board Certified in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry and Integrative Holistic Medicine, he teaches health care professionals around the world how to approach children’s health an
My vote for the seminal book on childhood mental health Nurtured Heart Approach I have just finished reading Dr. Shannon's amazing book and I am deeply appreciative of the unique perspective of his clinical prowess, his wide spectrum of research supporting his premises, the deep basis of experience and wisdom guiding his advice and his huge holistic array of resources that he brings into the equation. He creates a unique wisdom that promotes an understanding beyond convention and a direc. An Excellent Guide for Child Psychiatrists Psychiatrist Scott M. Shannon has written an extremely helpful book for all child psychiatrists who want to become healers instead of just doctors who write prescriptions. The work Dr. Scott M. Shannon does is incredible and in this book he shares all his secrets to getting kids well. He much prefers physiological interventions to medication but prescribes medication when necessary.This book deals with ADHD, . Reality comes to the nursery! Excellent, helpful and all-inclusive. Should be required reading for all families (not just mothers) and - particularly - family doctors, who are a bit remiss on some of the topics covered. It would be wonderful to have a DVD presentation for those who are not readers. It is vitally important stuff.
A welcome resource in an era where we are seeing so many behavioral issues in our children. The book is an informative read. Mental Health for the Whole Child is refreshingly pragmatic and compellinga necessary addition to any clinician’s toolbox. Dr. (Kathi J. Shannon lays out a simple, balanced approach to pediatric mental healthcare, one that looks beyond the diagnosis-drug paradigm we’ve come to rely on. Tomorrow, if we heed the lucid, powerful, and science-based prescription for reform in Mental Health for the Whole Child, we will adopt holistic methods for helping those children truly heal and become physically, emotionally, and spiritually well. (Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and Mad in America) . Pragmatic, wise, well-researched, and clearly expertly practiced methods . Shan
Stress, trauma, and poor nutrition are some of the most common barriers to wholeness in kids’ lives, and Shannon carefully examines these and other barriers, and what the latest discoveries in neuroplasticity and epigenetics tell us about their ability to overcome them. In this book, child psychiatrist Scott Shannon offers a refreshing new path for practitioners who are eager for a more optimistic view of children’s mental health, one that emphasizes a child’s inherent resilience and resources over pathology and prescriptions. A leading pediatric psychiatrist shows clinicians a holistic, full-spectrum approach to children’s well-being. Every child possesses enormous untapped potential, and yet the number of kids suffering from mental illness today seems to creep ever upward. Such a balance can’t be achieved by medication alone, but requires a broad, full-spectrum understanding of children’s lives: their diet, social skills, sleep habits, their ability to self-regulate, to find meaning and purpose in life, and their family relationships. Readers will learn how to perform a different sort of assessmentone that identifies patterns of imbalance and obstacles to health in a chi