When Your Child Has Lyme Disease - Sandra Berenbaum & Dorothy Leland

"Finally!! A guide to help parents of children with Lyme disease! This book walks you through what it’s like to have a child with Lyme. It touches on just about every problem that might arise, from issues with your school district to ones with your extended family members. This book is co-authored by a psychotherapist who works with families affected by Lyme, and part of her job is going to school meetings to advocate for the sick child. I didn’t even know that was a thing! I have a whole notepad full of information from this book. Very useful."

—Eliza

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WHEN YOUR CHILD

HAS LYME DISEASE:

A Parent's Survival Guide

By Sandra Berenbaum, LCSW, BCD

& Dorothy Kupcha Leland

With Foreword by Richard Horowitz, MD

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When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent's Survival Guide

Lyme disease can cause puzzling symptoms in children, including pain, fatigue, gastrointestinal upsets, learning disabilities, behavioral issues and psychiatric problems. The illness can be hard to diagnose, however, and Lyme-related controversies in the medical world complicate the picture even more. Parents trying to find help for their suffering children often don’t know where to turn.

When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Survival Guide is filled with information parents need to know about Lyme, as well as practical strategies based on the authors’ personal and professional experiences. It offers guidance on finding the right medical care, coping with treatment, developing effective boundaries with others who don’t understand what your family is going through, advocating for your child’s educational needs and managing day-to-day family life.

Sandra K. Berenbaum, who has counseled Lyme patients and their families for over 20 years, has developed responsive psychotherapy, a unique approach to helping families overcome the challenges of Lyme disease. Co-author Dorothy Kupcha Leland, whose daughter has the illness, is a national activist who writes the blog Touched by Lyme.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sandra Berenbaum (right) and Dorothy Kupcha Leland (left) have first-hand experience with the burdens faced by families coping with tick-borne illness. "Lyme disease affects the whole family, not just the person who is ill," they say. The authors hope this book will help parents and their children find a path to healing.

Sandra Berenbaum, LCSW, BCD, has a psychotherapy practice that focuses exclusively on Lyme disease patients and their families. In private practice for more than 25 years, Berenbaum is also Children’s and Mental Health Editor of The Lyme Times, is an advisor to Lyme Connection, and is affiliated with the Lyme Disease Association. She is a member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, and the National Association of Social Workers. Her presentations at both national and regional conferences have helped educate practitioners about how to work with patients who have Lyme disease. Her website is www.lymefamilies.com. She lives in Connecticut.

Dorothy Kupcha Leland, has a daughter with Lyme disease and is vice-president of LymeDisease.org, a national advocacy group. She has organized patient conferences, testified before the California State Legislature and the state health department, and written Lyme-related articles for a variety of publications. Co-founder of a Lyme support group in Sacramento, California, she also gives tick bite prevention talks and writes the widely read blog Touched by Lyme. Follow her on Twitter @dorothyleland. She lives in Northern California.

TABLE OF CONTENTS • 254 Pages

Foreword by Dr. Richard Horowitz

Preface: Why we wrote this book

Chapter One: Falling down Alice’s rabbit hole

Chapter Two: What is Lyme disease and why is it so controversial?

Chapter Three: Searching for answers

Chapter Four: Daily life with Lyme

Chapter Five: The vital importance of boundaries

Chapter Six: The role of psychotherapy and family therapy

Chapter Seven: Responsive psychotherapy and Lyme disease

Chapter Eight: Building a team

Chapter Nine: Educating your child with Lyme disease

Chapter Ten: After high school

Chapter Eleven: Stepping into the future

Resources and Appendices

Acknowledgements

Index

About the authors

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"I found so many similarities to my story here in this book. I've been a single parent of a child who has been suffering for over 4 years. We have seen countless specialists and doctors and have only recently come to find that my daughter has been suffering from Lyme Disease. It has taken over her life and mine and has taken every minute of my time and every ounce of my strength to work through this. I wish I had read this book years ago. I'd recommend this to any parent struggling through this horrible disease with their child."

—K. B.

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