A book so powerful that numerous colleges including Harvard Graduate School of Education are now using Intense Minds to help future social workers and counselors understand the perspective of children who live with this diagnosis. Young people with bipolar disorder and adults who grew up with the condition speak out to share how they experienced the symptoms of this illness during their youth, and how it affected their functioning in school, at home and with friends. Their insightful comments, woven together by the author, form a stunning picture of the young person's internal experience. The reader will come away with a new understanding of these young people and a renewed commitment to make a difference by reaching out to help. "Tracy Anglada has broken new ground with Intense Minds. While most books speak about the children and their feelings, hers is the first to capture the children articulating what they truly feel themselves: their impossible levels of frustration and irritability, their episodes of emptiness or manic energy, their severe difficulties in the academic environment, and their dread of night time due to their propensity to suffer horrific images and scenarios while sleeping. "One comes away with such admiration for these children and adolescents for soldiering on despite these terrible burdens, and for the author who took the time to listen and put their words to paper. Parents, clinicians and educators must read this first-of-its-kind book." Demitri F. Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos Authors of The Bipolar Child
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About the Author:
Tracy (Dunham) Anglada was born and raised in Illinois. She graduated with honors from Hillsboro High School. Her awards and recognition include: the Presidential Academic Fitness Award, the National Science Olympiad Award, and induction into the National Honor Society. After high school, she volunteered full time in a community service Bible educational work for three years. Later Tracy would study writing for a short time with the Institute of Children’s Literature. Her studies were halted after the birth of her son. It would be this child’s medical condition that prompted her to return to the field of literature. Tracy currently resides in Florida with her husband and four children. Her previous literary works include Brandon and the Bipolar Bear: A Story for Children with Bipolar Disorder, Turbo Max: A Story for Siblings of Children with Bipolar Disorder, The Student with Bipolar Disorder: An Educators Guide, Questions Kids Have About Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, and Pediatric Bipolar Disorder (DVD presentation). Tracy is a mental health advocate and President of BPChildren. She is a current member of the Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the STARFISH Advocacy Association. Tracy can be contacted via her website, www.bpchildren.com.
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- PublisherBPChildren
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0981739644
- ISBN 13 9780981739649
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages170
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