Shrink Rap

An Irreverent Take on Child Psychiatry

by Robin A. Altman, MD


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 4/9/2008

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 212
ISBN : 9781434360472

About the Book

If you want to simultaneously learn about Child Psychiatry, laugh, cry, and skeet shoot, then Shrink Rap – An Irreverent Take on Child Psychiatry, is the book for you. Child Psychiatry is a growing field which has managed to capture our imagination, and whose vernacular has crept into the English language. If someone mentions that his or her child has ADHD, we all have a vague idea of what this means. If we want to learn more, we are confronted with ponderous tomes, more likely to cure insomnia than to explain the presentation of Childhood Depression.

There are plenty of parenting books on the market. Shrink Rap – An Irreverent Take on Child Psychiatry is not a parenting book. It’s a fun book, meant for people who want more information about child psychiatry a chapter at a time. A chapter before bed, a chapter while waiting for a kid’s piano lesson to finish….perhaps a chapter on the toilet (depending on how much fiber one eats).

Shrink Rap – An Irreverent Take on Child Psychiatry is a fun look at topics in Child Psychiatry written in a light-hearted style, and full of anecdotes about patients and families (including the author’s own), which illustrate points while making mothers feel that they are not so alone. It covers topics such as “ADHD”, “Anxiety Disorders”, “Psychosis”, and, of course “Childcare i.e. Leaving Your Child with Nut Jobs”.

Shrink Rap – An Irreverent Take on Child Psychiatry, is written by a child and adolescent psychiatrist with 20 years of experience in psychiatry, but more importantly, 15 years of experience in motherhood. It demystifies the field, while answering the important questions, “Are all children of child psychiatrists nuts?”, “Are child psychiatrists insane?”, and “Why the heck would anyone go into this field?”.


About the Author

     Dr. Robin Altman completed her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, part of the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania.  She now practices Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Southeastern Pennsylvania in her private office, and as the medical director of the Children’s Home of Reading, a non-profit facility that treats children with severe psychiatric illness in a residential setting.

 

     Dr Altman uses humor on a daily basis to treat children and families, not only to bond with patients, but also to help people gain perspective on their various situations.   She lives in Wyomissing, PA with her three boys, Kevin, age 15, Alex, age 14, and Adam, age 49.