{"product_id":"your-child-in-the-balance","title":"Your Child in the Balance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Your Child in the Balance  child psychiatrist  Kevin Kalikow examines the highly topical and thorny question of whether and when to prescribe psychiatric medication to children. As parents  are we too ready to run to our pediatrician for Ritalin when our child shows the first sign of inattention at school? Or do we instead shy away from our doctors recommendation to consider an anti-depressant for a chronically sad and withdrawn teenager? Among the ever-growing outcry that psychiatric medicines are over-prescribed to children and adolescents today  how is a parent to know whether medication is the right treatment for their troubled child? Dr. Kalikow tackles these questions with the sensitivity and insight of years of experience helping families through the thicket of research and opinion to find the right answer for their child. Through many colorful vignettes  he explores our efforts to protect our children from the inevitable hurts and disappointments of childhood  and the role that medication can play in that attempt. On the other side  Kalikow shows us our determination to have our children succeed or fail on their own  the way we had to do  even to the point of refusing the medication that might help them overcome a serious and potentially chronic disability.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44967273201717,"sku":"ByrdShop_1593153597","price":59.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781593153595.jpg?v=1770642215","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/your-child-in-the-balance","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}