Reviews for Basic handbook of training in child and adolescent psychiatry

The average rating for Basic handbook of training in child and adolescent psychiatry based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-08 00:00:00 Scotty Dilworth Absolutely fascinating. The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation. Whewww, this one was an emotional doozy - I was equally fascinated and horrified by what the author witnessed and treated. There's the case from the title - where a (marginally) well-meaning old man finds himself in charge of a young boy (the grandson of a deceased girlfriend). Not knowing how to raise children, but having plenty of experience raising dogs, he decides to use the methods he knew best. For years, the child was treated with as much love and care as he gave his dogs...which is to say not much. And as a result, Dr. Bruce Perry stumbles into a hospital only to find a feces-throwing, unsocialized and feral child locked to a hospital bed. But with immediate placement into foster care and a few (okay, quite a few) sessions, the child is now rehabilitated. Now that is one - just one - of the many cases the author describes. Biology isn’t just genes playing out some unalterable script. It is sensitive to the world around it. Dr. Perry talks about the therapy triage he did with the 21 Waco cult children, the analysis of a teen psychopath (who murdered and raped two girls), the Russian orphan who had no adult socialization for the first three years of his life (and the other orphan children began making their own language) and so much more. The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. This book was riveting. He speaks of clinical studies and cases through a very down-to-earth way (much to my relief). The cases he speaks of were absolutely fascinating - I truly wish this book was four times longer. Audiobook Comments Read by Danny Campbell - and he nailed it. The perfect mixture of tone and pacing. Really well-read. YouTube | Blog | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Snapchat @miranda_reads

Review # 2 was written on 2017-10-30 00:00:00 Feur Wanger This is a book about damaged children and the psychiatrist who tried to help them. The two saddest stories are the little girl, a toddler really, who at 3 was being prepared to testify against the man (as the only witness) who had murdered her mother in front of her and then cut her throat. She was too young to know about death and had tried to wake her mother and feed her, give her milk and then laid down on her and sung her lullabies. The other was the 21 Waco children that David Koresh had taught to distrust everyone outside the compound and, if faced with them, to commit suicide. They watched each other which meant that they tried to preserve the evil culture that was the only one they knew. They supported each other to begin with in a very malign way, but later, this mutual support aided them in their journey towards mental health. The author is an immensely caring man, and one who put aside objectivity for involvement ind these children's lives. How did he ever sleep at night? What did he dream of? He too must have needed therapy. Maybe that's what the book was.