Please Don't Label My Child: Break the Doctor-Diagnosis-Drug Cycle and Discover Safe, Effective, Choices for Your Child's Emotional Health

by Emily Heckman and Scott M. Shannon

Book Overview

A leading child psychiatrist warns against today's alarming eagerness to brand kids with a diagnosis of emotional illness and shows parents where to look for the real culprits. In recent years, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157954682X
• ISBN13: 9781579546823
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

What a relief!

I'm a Mom with a boy whose teacher was eager (really eager) to diagnose him with ADD because he drifts off during math. This book saved us from that cycle of testing and medication. I learned about diet and supplements and how to stand up for my child against a system that wanted to check him off and put a label on his forehead. That label would have made his teacher feel better, but not anyone else. Thank you!!!

Wish we had this book before all the pills and therapy!!

We are parents of three daughters. The two older ones, now age 11 and 6, were diagnozed with ADHD, and the 11 year old with bipolary depression. We fully belive in knowledge and getting help, so both of us has been reading all the books we could get on the topics. We also had individual and family therapy and support. Some helped a lot. Others not at all. Dr Shannon's book made the most difference of them all. Not only did it guide us to get them off harmfull medication in the right way, by we changed schools and our approach to parenting in a way that made immediate impact. We keenly reccommend this book to parents who have real life struggles with high spirited kids that just need the correct guidance and help in their own special and unique way. Buy more than one copy, as you might want to give some of your friends the book - but not your own copy!

A MUST READ!

I wish every parent, teacher, and health care professional would buy and read this book. Please Don't Label My Child is informative, helpful, and beautifully written for the layman. Our children are being drugged and mis-diagnosed in horrific numbers and in this book Dr. Shannon offers healthy common sense alternatives. There's also an Appendix that defines the labels given to our children that is comprehensive and enlightening! I highly recommend this book to anyone who cares about the future of our children.

A Fresh Look at Children

Scott Shannon's book, Please Don't Label My Child is an excellent resource for parents trying to raise healthy children in today's complex times. Whether, as a parent, you have concerns about your child's development or just want to do right for your child you will find this book immensely helpful. Dr. Shannon is a child psychiatrist who can take a topic full of jargon and medical terminology and turn it into a read that is both easily understood and enjoyable. I work in the public schools as a school psychologist and I am recommending Please Don't Label My Child to parents, teachers, colleagues and anyone else who cares about our children.

Informative and useful

As a teacher of adolescents, I found Dr. Shannon's book to be a useful resource, and it will be an important part of my professional library. He explains important concepts from a logical yet compassionate point of view, and he gives you the tools to be proactive in the care of children and adolescents. This book was hard to put down once I started it, and I don't say that very often about nonfiction. After you read this book, you are going to recommend it to everyone you know. I did.