Description: Written for parents and professionals, Parent Child Excursions is a practical, original, and detailed book about helping children with ADHD, anxiety, and autism.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
For the first time, state-of-the-art and highly original methods are presented to address the issues that commonly co-occur in complicated children and teens.... Dr. Shapiro offers a remarkable combination of up-to-date scientific knowledge and extremely practical advice that will be of great benefit to pediatricians and mental health professionals, as well as to parents. William Stixrud, PhD, clinical neuropsychologist and coauthor with Ned Johnson of The Self-Driven Child
Dr. Shapiro has ... provided a map for families and clinicians alike to follow as a way to make sense of how these conditions may manifest and challenge us.... I would recommend that any parent or clinician involved with children on the ADHD/ASD/anxiety spectrum get this book. --Lance Clawson, MD, child and adolescent psychiatrist