Summary Of Recover My Kid By Joseph Lee
Recovering My Kid author Dr. Joseph Lee, is well known in the field of psychiatry. Dr. Lee has been featured on a number of TV shows nationally including The Dr. OZ Show, NPR, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal and regularly contributes to a blog for Psychology Today; locally on news stations as well as press conferences with senators. He completed his Adult Psychiatry residency at Duke University Hospital; his fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital; He is a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine and is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Substance Abuse Committee. Currently serving as the medical director for Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s youth services. Born
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I would believe through reading Dr. Lee’s book that he believes this is paramount for lifespan development; as much of the book discusses: Home, culture, frameworks. In my own research; environment plays a large role as to why some young people use drugs. In some environments drugs are easy to acquire or friends may use drugs, poverty may also play a role. Having positive adult role models, positive friends, and being financially stable tend to show in youth more resilient to drug use. Family factors include: Parents who use or do not monitor activities, youth may feel rejected by parents, divorce or other conflicts in the family, addiction may run in the family. While youth less tempted to use may have; no experience of loss or separation as a child, strong family unit, good relationship with parents, and parents who supervise and monitor activities. Other factors that usually appear are religious values, personality, and education. After using drugs addiction is possible, and for some, based on genetics or environments, very likely. Additionally after training billions of brain cells to scream yes, yes; it may be extremely difficult to just say no. In our text Freud believed much of our personality is formed by age 5, however personalities change in response to parenting, cultural pressures, and other environmental influences. As a result, correlations between early childhood traits and adult traits are usually quite
I would believe through reading Dr. Lee’s book that he believes this is paramount for lifespan development; as much of the book discusses: Home, culture, frameworks. In my own research; environment plays a large role as to why some young people use drugs. In some environments drugs are easy to acquire or friends may use drugs, poverty may also play a role. Having positive adult role models, positive friends, and being financially stable tend to show in youth more resilient to drug use. Family factors include: Parents who use or do not monitor activities, youth may feel rejected by parents, divorce or other conflicts in the family, addiction may run in the family. While youth less tempted to use may have; no experience of loss or separation as a child, strong family unit, good relationship with parents, and parents who supervise and monitor activities. Other factors that usually appear are religious values, personality, and education. After using drugs addiction is possible, and for some, based on genetics or environments, very likely. Additionally after training billions of brain cells to scream yes, yes; it may be extremely difficult to just say no. In our text Freud believed much of our personality is formed by age 5, however personalities change in response to parenting, cultural pressures, and other environmental influences. As a result, correlations between early childhood traits and adult traits are usually quite