Reset your child's brain a four-week plan to end meltdowns, raise grades, and boost social skills by reversing the effects of electronic screen-time

"Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar, or autism spectrum disorders. They are then medicated with often poor and side-effect-riddled results. Author Dunckley specializes in working...

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Main Author: Dunckley, Victoria L., 1970-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Novato, California : New World Library, [2015]
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Summary: "Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar, or autism spectrum disorders. They are then medicated with often poor and side-effect-riddled results. Author Dunckley specializes in working with children and families who have failed to respond to previous treatment and has pioneered a new program. In her work with more than 500 children, teens, and young adults diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, 80 percent showed marked improvement on the four-week program presented here. Interactive screens, including video games, laptops, cell phones, and tablets over stimulate a child's nervous system. While no one in today's connected world can completely shun electronic stimuli, Dunckley shows how the most vulnerable amongst us can and should be spared their damaging effects"--
Physical Description: 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes
ISBN: 9781608682843 (paperback)
1608682846 (paperback)
Author Notes: Victoria L. Dunckley, MD, is an award-winning integrative psychiatrist who has appeared as a mental health expert on such media outlets as the TODAY show, NBC Nightly News, and the Investigation Discovery network. In the past ten years, her Res; Program has helped more than five hundred children, teens, young adults who failed to respond to conventional treatment alone. She lives and practices in Los Angeles.