Pills Are Not for Preschoolers: A Drug-Free Approach for Troubled Kids

[Wedges] encouragement to look anew at the problems our children have . . . is valuable and expert advice.Booklist

Where can parents turn when their child exhibits disturbing behavior and they want to avoid psychiatric labels and drugs? Pills Are Not for Preschoolers presents a much-needed alternative: child-focused family therapya brief, effective approach that involves family members in the childs therapy. A family therapist for more than twenty years, Marilyn Wedge treats childrens problems not as biologically determined disorders but as responses to relationships in their lives that can be altered with the help of a therapist. Parents can now respond to symptoms of ADHD, depression, and anxiety with respectful family prescriptives, not prescriptionsand Wedge brilliantly shows us how easy it can be to understand and implement her pathbreaking approach.