If Your Child Is Bipolar: The Parent-to-Parent Guide to Living with and Loving a Bipolar Child

by Cindy Singer, Sheryl Gurrentz

This extremely practical and supportive guide empowers parents as they struggle with a child who may be bipolar. The authors' own family experiences, stories from hundreds of other parents of bipolar children, and input from a wide range of mental health professionals provide parents with specific information to deal with the everyday but incredibly challenging issues confronting the entire family. Among the helpful topics included are how to explore the possibility that a child's problem behaviors are a sign of mental illness; finding a mental healthcare professional who can make a diagnosis; understanding what a diagnosis is and isn't; learning parenting strategies to control a child's behavior at home, at school, and in social situations; and balancing the needs of a bipolar child with the needs of everyone else in the family.

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Cindy Abramson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wrote it...but I believe it is 5-star worthy! It has been A LOT of years since it was published and !!SPOILER ALERT!! she turned out better than great! She is wonderful, happy, healthy, and all of the other things you want for your children.

If you are in it, know that there is hope. I know (because she tells me) that she was actually listening and learning all along. The seeds were all being planted. We just didn't get to see them bloom until her brain was developed enough to let them.

And she also has told me that all the hard parenting stuff like rules and consistancy and expectations...they made her feel safer.

Who knew?! I wish I had. Now, you do!