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Attention Deficits and Hyperactivity in Children (Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry)
Stephen P. Hinshaw

Sage Publications, Inc, 1993

"Another winner in Sage's Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Series, this time by a University of California, Berkeley psychologist. . . . Stephen P. Hinshaw's chief goals are to provide adequate background information and to evaluate certain key debates and core questions that remain unacceptably answered at the present time. . . . He has managed to convey in accurate and readable fashion a remarkable amount of information in a ...

Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
Theodore P. Beauchaine, Stephen P. Hinshaw

Wiley, 2008

Child and Adolescent Psychopathology provides a unique opportunity to expose students to a cutting-edge approach to childhood and adolescent disorders by addressing and integrating the most current research on the genetic, neurobiological, and environmental factors that contribute to them. The text also emphasizes how, when, and why disorders emerge among young people and in what ways symptom profiles change at different stages of development.

Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Professionals Disclose Their Personal and Family Experiences of Mental ...

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

Long-overdue destigmatization
This is a fantastic book. Dr. Borelli's chapter on sibling mental illness is especially noteworthy. It is (at once) gripping, frightening, and illuminating. It is also extraordinarily brave.

The Years of Silence Are Past: My Father's Life with Bipolar Disorder

4 reviews
Stephen P. Hinshaw

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Get This Book for Everyone You Know
This is one of the best books on any topic I have read lately. Anyone who knows anyone with a psychological problem (that's all of you with a pulse, by the way), should read The Years of Silence are Past. The title refers to the silence that descended on Stephen Hinshaw's family in the face of his father's bipolar illness (manic-depression). The book is so resonant because countless families ...

The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change

2 reviews
Stephen P. Hinshaw

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

The Second in a Remarkable Trilogy
My remarks on this book, the second in Dr. Hinshaw's remarkable trilogy that examines our culture's attitudes towards mental illness, are late in coming. I've waited for another reviewer to offer a counter-point to the first reviewer's comments about this reading like a textbook. I've suffered through many a dry textbook, and cannot imagine making such a comparison. I find Dr. Hinshaw's ...

Steps to Independence: Teaching Everyday Skills to Children with Special Needs, Third Edition

8 reviews
Bruce L. Baker, Alan J. Brightman, ...

Brookes Publishing Company, 1997

Excellent resource!
No parent OR special education teacher should be without this book! Easy to read, and the content is excellent! Step-by-step approaches to teaching everyday skills to children with special needs, but would be just as valuable to ANY parent! After reading this book, I have found it easier to establish goals for my students and everyone is using the same approach to teaching everyday living ...