This book is highly recommended as an excellent resource for parents of patients and for health care professionals who work with children and families affected by bipolar disorder. In particular, the book will benefit those who want to understand the disorder’s emergence within a comprehensive developmental framework. — Amy E. West, PhD, Psychiatric Times (May 01, 2007 Vol. 24 No. 6). Click here to read the review.
Sandra B. Gee (Houston, TX USA) posted this review on amazon.com:
I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist and just recently sat down to read the book cover to cover. Dr. Lombardo is a gifted teacher who presents ideas and concepts in such a fashion that the recommendations he gives to parents make sense. I especially was glad that he acknowledges that parents need to be good enough, not perfect. As Dr. Lombardo phrased it: “perfect is the enemy of good” (pg 62). I think this is very validating to parents of bipolar children who all too often get unspoken messages from others that defective parenting skills are the cause of the bipolar’s child’s behaviors. As if in a “hats off” to parents of bipolar children, Dr. Lombardo states: “It takes courage to acknowledge the presence of bipolar disorder, in ourselves and in our children….Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to do the right thing in the presence of fear” (pg 276).