Parent Child Excursions: ADHD, Anxiety, and Autism

Written for parents, clinicians, and educators, Parent Child Excursions is a practical book about helping children with ADHD, anxiety, and autism. In this unique approach, Dr. Dan presents ADHD as a problem with stopping, anxiety as a problem with going, and autism as difficulty balancing these competing tendencies. From the introduction: "This book is quite simply a story of red light and green light, braking and accelerating, holding back and forging ahead." Based on this simple formulation, management of problems with self-control depends on finding the right balance between excitation and inhibition.

These five Excursions present entirely new ways to think about caring for "different drummer" children. Readers will discover an unprecedented level of detail. Based on scientific research and years of clinical experience, Dr. Dan takes you for a deep dive into: (1) effective medication for ADHD, (2) exposure therapy for anxiety, (3) combined therapies for coexisting ADHD, anxiety, and autism, and (4) social engineering for autism. The book concludes with an in-depth discussion of (5) autism, sexuality, and gender variation, cowritten by Dr. Dan and his son Dr. Aaron Shapiro.

As with his first book, Parent Child Journey: An Individualized Approach to Raising Your Challenging Child, Dr. Dan teams up again with illustrator John Watkins-Chow. Throughout the five Excursions, they weave a fun metaphorical tale. Readers are led along by an under-inhibited dog, an over-inhibited turtle, and a well-balanced bird of a different feather.

By the end of this comprehensive and original guidebook, parents and professionals will have learned how to prepare the child for the trail and the trail for the child.

Author: Dan Shapiro
Publisher: Dagmar Miura
Published: 11/10/2019
Pages: 428
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781951130107

About the Author
Shapiro, Dan: - Dr. Dan Shapiro is a native of East Lansing, Michigan. He moved to Washington, DC, to attend the George Washington University School of Medicine and stayed for pediatric residency training at Children's National Medical Center. Dr. Shapiro practiced primary-care pediatric and adolescent medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland, before shifting his focus to developmental and behavioral pediatrics. Currently, in addition to his office practice, Dr. Shapiro observes children and collaborates with educators at dozens of Washington, DC, and suburban Maryland schools. He developed the Parent Child Journey program and offers behavior-management training groups throughout Greater Washington. (For more information, go to ParentChildJourney.com.) He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Dr. Shapiro is married, with four children and two grandchildren. He is the author of Parent Child Journey: An Individualized Approach to Raising Your Challenging Child.Shapiro, Aaron: - Dr. Aaron Shapiro is currently a resident in Primary Care Social Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in The Bronx, New York. He received his M.D. from the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and his M.P.H. in Health Leadership and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the founder of Citizen Physicians (a non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to increasing civic engagement in the medical community), a National Health Service Corps Scholar, and a Global Health Corps Alumnus. He is the third of Dr. Dan Shapiro's four sons.Watkins-Chow, John: - John Watkins-Chow was born in New Jersey and has three degrees from MIT. John has been drawing all his life. He has worked in animation, comics, and sketch card art on properties such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Marvel Comics-and his own comic, Talismen. John was also the illustrator for Dr. Shapiro's first book, Parent Child Journey: An Individualized Approach to Raising Your Challenging Child. During the day, John teaches math at a private school in suburban Maryland. John is married and has two daughters.