Stein offers a powerful set of tools for parents of difficult teens, employing cognitive/behavioral, drug-free solutions.

 

Attacking the current dogma that many teens are viewed as victims of mysterious and baffling psychiatric diseases such as ADD, ADHD, and bipolar disorder, this book dispels and confronts the currently popular outpouring of disease myths. Teens who hate schoolwork, misbehave in class, and don’t pay attention to their work are often tagged with one of these labels and then simply put on drugs such as ritalin in an attempt to alter their behavior. In a controversial view that is bound to trigger a nationwide debate, psychologist David Stein asserts that the mislabeling of teens is not only irresponsible but also heinous.

Based on twenty-five years of research and his experience in helping hundreds of families, Stein offers a powerful set of tools for parents of difficult teens employing cognitive/behavioral, drug-free solutions. His book not only describes the long-term implications of using psychiatric drugs ("what you need to know and what you aren’t being told"), but offers an alternative to controlling difficult teens through his popular REST (Real Economy System for Teens) program, a non-confrontational parenting plan. Further chapters delve into more specific yet equally vital teen issues, such as valuing education, choosing a college, and that critical rite of passage for all teenagers as they cross into adulthood: the car.

 

 

Ritalin is Not The Answer - A Drug-free, Practical Program for Children Diagnosed with ADD or ADHD

Nearly one-tenth of all school -aged children in the United States are being coerced into taking mood-altering drugs with side effects that include insomnia. Tearfulness, rebound irritability, personality change, nervousness, anorexia, nausea, dizziness, headaches, heart palpitations, and cardiac arrhythmia. These are children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Ritalin Is Not the Answer confronts and challenges what has become common practice and teaches parents and educators a healthy, comprehensive behavioral program that really works as an alternative to the epidemic use of medication-without teaching children to use drugs in order to handle their behavioral and emotional problems.

 

 

 

Filled with self-tests, specific step-by-step guidelines, checklists, and exercises, Ritalin Is Not the Answer Action Guide offers a healthy, comprehensive behavioral program that has been proven to work!  The material in this book helps clarify precisely the steps needed by parents to help their child overcome ADD/ADHD without any need for drugs.  Successful stories from thousands of parents and doctors who contacted Dr. Dave have helped add clarifications to make the Caregivers Skills Program even more successful.

 

 

Challenging the disease theories of ADD/ADHD, Stein offers parents a safe, foolproof alternative. Rejecting the pill solution, he presents a truly effective parent training program called the caregivers’ skills program that helps children learn appropriate behavioral and cognitive skills permanently, without drug therapy. Stein presents case studies from his own highly successful practice that demonstrate the remarkably effective CSP that can help parents; educators, physicians and therapists treat today’s problem children. This title is now in stock! Click here to order:

 

 

Controlling the Difficult Adolescent The REST Program (Real Economy System for Teens)

If you have a difficult adolescent, whether he/she is called AD/ADHD or Oppositional-Defiant, this is the book for you.  Gives specific steps that parents can take without the need for confrontation, and it really works!