Qigong for Treating Common Ailments or Helping Your Teenager Beat Depression

Qigong for Treating Common Ailments: The Essential Guide to Self-Healing

Author: Xu Xiangcai

So many ailments that happen to us and our families are simple to treat once we have the proper knowledge.

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Helping Your Teenager Beat Depression: A Problem-Solving Approach for Families

Author: Katharina Manassis

Helping Your Teenager Beat Depression presents the authors' unique strategy that enables parents to become effective partners in the treatment of their child's depression. Whether their teen is withdrawn, sad, angry, or anxious, parents can immediately begin to help their child and themselves by using the L.E.A.P. program, a problem-solving strategy based on cognitive-behavioral therapy, a widely-recognized and proven treatment. With L.E.A.P., the goal is to identify, empathize with, and change depressive behaviors and attitudes, thereby improving the teen's outlook and responsiveness to treatment. Use L.E.A.P. to address minor mood problems and reduce the risk of relapse, and in conjunction with professional therapy for more serious depressive disorders. The commitment is minimal -- perhaps 10-20 minutes per week -- and the benefits can be substantial.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Saisha Gupta, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book first provides information about depressive disorders, then the techniques that both parents and teens can use to help with depression (LEAP approach).
Purpose: The purpose is to improve understanding of depression in teenagers and ways to help treat it. It provides useful tips to parents and teens.
Audience: This book is of particular interest to parents, teenagers, and mental health workers. It is a great resource to offer parents.
Features: After providing information about depressive disorders, the book goes on to explain the LEAP approach and how parents and teens may use it. It also delves into family dynamics, medications, and school-related issues. At the end of most chapters are key points and very useful summaries.
Assessment: This book is a good tool for helping parents and teens with depression. It looks at depression from a comprehensive perspective, including families, schools, the teens, and medications.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	vii
Part 1	Understanding Teenage Moods
Chapter 1	From Sadness to Suicidality: The Spectrum of Teen Depression	3
Chapter 2	Causes and Treatments of Depression	13
Chapter 3	Seeking Professional Help for Your Teen	25
Chapter 4	What Is Normal for Adolescents?	33
Part 2	The L.E.A.P. Approach
Chapter 5	L.E.A.P.: A Problem-Solving Approach	43
Chapter 6	The L.E.A.P. Program in Action	53
Part 3	The L.E.A.P. Approach and Your Teen
Chapter 7	Lights, Camera, Action!	65
Chapter 8	Healthy Habits	73
Chapter 9	Depressive Thinking	83
Chapter 10	The Angry, Depressed Child	93
Chapter 11	Anxiety and Depression	103
Chapter 12	Depression and the Family (Part 1)	113
Chapter 13	Depression and the Family (Part 2)	125
Chapter 14	Suicidal Behavior and Other Crises	135
Chapter 15	Medications and Depression	145
Chapter 16	Dealing with the School	159
Chapter 17	Dealing with Peers	169
Chapter 18	The Future	179
	Bibliography	189
	Resources	191
	Index	195