Pills are Not for Preschoolers: A Drug-Free Approach for Troubled Kids

Where can parents turn when their child exhibits disturbing behavior and they want to avoid psychiatric labels and drugs? Pills Are Not for Preschoolers presents a much-needed alternative: child-focused family therapy a brief, effective approach that involves family members in the child s therapy. A family therapist for more than twenty years, Marilyn Wedge treats children s problems not as biologically determined disorders but as responses to relationships in their lives that can be altered with the help of a therapist. Parents can now respond to symptoms of ADHD, depression, and anxiety with respectful family prescriptives, not -prescriptions and Wedge brilliantly shows us how easy it can be to understand and implement her pathbreaking approach. Like a clever detective, [Wedge] allows the child to guide her to the heart of a family s problems. Publishers Weekly I highly recommend this book to doctors, mental health professionals, educators, and parents. Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia