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ELIZABETH
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Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Adult Psychiatrist
Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology 25460 Medical Center Dr. Suite 203
Murrieta, California 92562
951-894-6900 |
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Books Authored by
Dr. Roberts:
Should You Medicate Your Child's Mind?
A Child Psychiatrist Makes Sense of
Whether or Not to Give Kids Meds
(May 2006)
Bipolar Children:
Cutting Edge Controversy, Insight, and Research,
chapter 5
(Nov 2007)
edited by Sharna Olfman
Elizabeth Roberts, MD has a private practice in Murrieta, California
where she treats children, teens and adults. Dr. Roberts is also the medical
director of Casa de Lago, an eating disorder unit for adolescent girls in
Canyon Lake, CA, and the medical director of a Psychiatric Emergency Room
for children in Riverside, CA.
Dr. Roberts has appeared on The
Oprah Show, ABC News in Chicago and CBS News Los Angeles, NBC News in
San Francisco, on Real Life with Mary Amoroso in New Jersey, and
KZSW TV in California.
For her expertise on the subject of
medicating children with psych drugs, she has been a guest on numerous
radio shows including: Washington Post Radio in Washington D.C.,
The Milt Rosenberg Show, Chicago, The Pete Wilson Show, San
Francisco, Positive Parenting, San Francisco, Washington, DC and
Good Parenting and many others.
Dr. Roberts has been quoted in
several publications, including her Op-Ed in
The Washington Post, "A Rush To Medicate Young Minds"
published October 8, 2006; the
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette Forum: Bipolar Kids or Bad Parents? published November 18, 2007;
and in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.
She has lectured at UC Berkeley on the use of psychiatric medications in children and conducted
public seminars on mental illness and parenting through hospitals, high
schools, and ChADD meetings.
The educational film on teenage drinking, Alcohol: Think, Don’t Drink,
featured Dr. Roberts as the leading expert in the field of addictions in
teens based on her work as the Medical Director of Hazelden in Chicago and
Lombard, IL.
The experience she brings to clinical practice does not end with her work
in psychiatry. Prior to attending Medical School, Elizabeth Roberts founded
a Summer Camp, worked as a school teacher, and provided shelter to runaways.
She
is also the mother of three. |
Should You Medicate Your Child's Mind?
A Child Psychiatrist Makes Sense of
Whether or Not to Give Kids Meds
Description:
Millions of parents are struggling with the decision of whether or not to medicate their children for
psychiatric disorders—from depression to ADHD to bipolar disorder. Now
physician and psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Roberts explains the risks and
benefits of medicating and not medicating children and demystifies and
simplifies the process of separating psychiatric illness from the other more
common behavioral patterns in children, particularly defiance, or
willfulness.
Dr. Roberts clearly explains what she discusses every day with the
parents of the hundreds of children she treats. How is a parent to know
which behaviors are bio-chemical and which are simply the result of
willfulness? When should a parent seek a child psychiatrist's help in
medicating their child? How can you find a doctor you can trust? When is it
more appropriate to use behavioral techniques? Dr. Roberts' insight will be
invaluable in helping families wade through all the contradictory
recommendations that often come from the media, the Internet, teachers,
relatives, friends and neighbors. |
The Reviews are starting to come in...
“This is an
outstanding resource for parents from one of America’s most important child
psychiatrists. If you are a parent with a child who is taking psychiatric
medications, or you are thinking about starting your child on these
medications, this is a must read.” —Tobias Desjardins, LCSW, family
mediator, creator of the “Divorce Survivor” workshop series
“A carefully thought out, down-to-earth analysis of a sensitive problem many
parents face. It should be reassuring to lots of moms and dads.”
—Thomas W. Phelan, PhD, author of 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for
Children 2–12
“Any parent who is considering placing their child on psychiatric
medications should first read this book. Dr. Roberts takes an extremely
complicated issue and, using common sense and solid medical knowledge,
distills it down to no-nonsense advice that is enjoyable and informative to
read.”
—Bryan D. Yates, MD, psychiatristFrom the Foreword:
"What you need is not
propaganda from either side in the war. What you need is the truth, which is
almost certainly in the middle. Thankfully, Dr. Elizabeth Roberts has
written this book, a practical, hands-on, no nonsense guide to making one of
the most difficult decisions in parentdom. She’s laid out the issues, the
confusions, the problems and the solutions without getting into partisanship
in the war. Her allegiance is to you and your child, to helping you to
neither give your child medications he may not need nor to avoid them when
they might help. In this book, your child gets to be your child rather than
a poster kid for either side of the war going on in psychiatry." Drew Ross,
M.D. |
Should You Medicate Your Child's Mind?
A Child
Psychiatrist Makes Sense of Whether or Not to Give Kids Meds
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Excerpt:
"My inspiration for this book came from my clinical experience. After
repeated encounters with children as young as three years old who had been
diagnosed by their previous doctor multiple times, with simultaneous
psychiatric illnesses and medicated with several different psychiatric
medications, I knew something was wrong. As I sorted out each situation with
each individual family they would ask me, 'Where could I have found this
information before the mistakes were made in my child’s treatment?' Parents
asked me to write a book to help them navigate the sea of mixed, often
contradictory advice offered by well-meaning teachers, neighbors and hurried
pediatricians. They complained that most authors generally take an all or
nothing approach. Authors usually present the extremes. They will either
vilify or glorify psychiatric medication. Finding a book that approaches the
subject in reasonable way is not easy."—Elizabeth Roberts |
Contact Information
Telephone for Interviews and Appointments:
951-894-6900 |
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