It's Nobody's Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents

By Harold Koplewicz

Book Overview

For the guilt-ridden parents of nearly 7.5 million children living with mental disorders such as ADD, this indispensible guide assesses the new therapies available and offers new hope. Parents will be comforted by the knowledge that they're doing their best and that they are not alone. Ships 3/13/96. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812929217
• ISBN13: 9780812929218
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Questioning Medicine?

If you are a parent and are questioning whether or not you should medicate your child, you should read this book. No parent wants to put their child on medicine. This book has helped me realize that medicine is needed for certain disorders and therapy alone does not work all of the time. This book is very informative and will help you understand that yes, medicine does help along with therapy. I enjoyed reading and realize...

A mother of a bipolar little boy

This book did wonders! After the diagnosis of my son, there was some fighting in amongst the family as to whether or not his diagnosis was correct or if it was just my parenting. This book with it's facts and concise examples, helped me through this rough time and even gave me concrete facts I could show my relatives. I would recommend this book for anyone who has just had their child diagnosed.

Right on the button

I don't have a "problem child," but I do have a close relative with an obsessive-compulsive disorder, and someone recommended this book to me for information on that subject. His discussion was brief but thorough and to the point, and I learned some techniques that were very helpful to me in dealing with my immediate problem. I was also favorably impressed with the author's emphasis. Far too many parents, faced with...

I don't feel "guilty" anymore!

This is the first book that I have read about various "brain disorders" that was simply written and easy for me to understand. For years, we tried to figure out what was the problem with our son, and what we (as parents)were doing WRONG. I felt like I was the worst mom because of my son's behavior (aggressive, defiant, mood swings and hyperactive). We tried every approach (diet, homeopathic remedies, vitamins, different...

The knowledge in this book can literally save lives.

Parents of children with severe and persistent brain disorders such as major depression, bipolar, obsessive-compulsive disorder, ADHD, and others see their child suffering miserably and often blame themselves. Brain research in the past 10-15 years has revealed that these are highly genetic, treatable, medical disorders, not the result of bad parenting. Koplewicz does an outstanding job of presenting factual information...