Ritalin Is Not the Answer: A Drug-Free, Practical Program for Children Diagnosed With Add or Adhd - Softcover

David B. Stein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787945145 ISBN 13: 9780787945145

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 1999

Synopsis

A provocative examination of the increasingly widespread use of Ritalin for potentially disruptive schoolchildren discusses the drug's many unfortunate side effects, including the possibility of addiction and personality changes, offering safe alternatives and techniques for conduct improvement. Original.

About this title

About the Author

DAVID B. STEIN, is a practicing clinical psychologist, associate professor of psychology at Longwood College, and father of two sons who were once placed on Ritalin. His research and writings center on the diagnosis and treatment of attentional, behavioral, and motivational problems in children. For over twenty-five years he has conducted workshops providing realistic, practical, and effective alternatives to Ritalin.

From the Back Cover

At Last! A Healthy, Drug-Free Alternative to Ritalin

Nearly one-tenth of all school-aged children in the United States are being coerced into taking mood-altering drugs with side effects that include insomnia, tearfulness, rebound irritability, personality change, nervousness, anorexia, nausea, dizziness, headaches, heart palpitations, and cardiac arrhythmia. These are the children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Ritalin Is Not the Answer confronts and challenges what has become common practice and teaches parents and educators a healthy, comprehensive behavioral program that really works as an alternative to the epidemic use of medication-without teaching children to use drugs in order to handle their behavioral and emotional problems.

From the Inside Flap

At Last! A Healthy, Drug-Free Alternative to RitalinNearly one-tenth of all school-aged children in the United States are being coerced into taking mood-altering drugs with side effects that include insomnia, tearfulness, rebound irritability, personality change, nervousness, anorexia, nausea, dizziness, headaches, heart palpitations, and cardiac arrhythmia. These are the children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Ritalin Is Not the Answer confronts and challenges what has become common practice and teaches parents and educators a healthy, comprehensive behavioral program that really works as an alternative to the epidemic use of medication-without teaching children to use drugs in order to handle their behavioral and emotional problems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787945145
• ISBN 13: 9780787945145
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 203