What Works for Bipolar Kids: Help and Hope for Parents

It may be hard to believe your child will ever get better, but kids with bipolar disorder can and do lead healthy, stable lives. In this compassionate and optimistic book, expert clinician and renowned researcher Mani Pavuluri delivers information, advice, and proven strategies that empower you to deal with the challenges of bipolar disorder and help your child get well. Drawing on 20 years of experience with bipolar kids and their families, she provides solidly researched strategies for reducing or eliminating problems with mania, aggression, sleep disturbances, depression, and other issues. You’ll discover practical ways to handle crises at home and in school, work with professionals to find an effective combination of medicine and psychotherapy, and cultivate a supportive community of friends and peers for your child. Dr. Pavuluri also helps you deal with the stress that comes with parenting, so you can maintain your poise, focus on the positive, and be a powerful advocate for your child.

Winner--American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award

• The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder, Third Edition
• The Bipolar Teen: What You Can Do to Help Your Child and Your Family
• Parenting a Bipolar Child: What to Do and Why
• Bipolar Kids: Helping Your Child Find Calm in the Mood Storm
• Positive Parenting for Bipolar Kids: How to Identify, Treat, Manage, and Rise to the Challenge
• Brandon and the Bipolar Bear: A Story for Children with Bipolar Disorder (Revised Edition)
• What It's Like To Be Bipolar: A Child's Perspective on a Childhood Condition
• Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder: Innovative Parenting and Counseling Techniques for Helping Children with Bipolar Disorder and the Conditions that May Occur with It
• The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child: A Survival Guide for Parents
• RAINBOW: A Child- and Family-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, Clinician Guide (Programs That Work)