Reset Your Child's Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

Victoria L. Dunckley, MD

Jun 2015 · New World Library

About this ebook

Increasing numbers of parents grapple with children who are acting out without obvious reason. Revved up and irritable, many of these children are diagnosed with ADHD, bipolar illness, autism, or other disorders but don’t respond well to treatment. They are then medicated, often with poor results and unwanted side effects. Based on emerging scientific research and extensive clinical experience, integrative child psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley has pioneered a four-week program to treat the frequent underlying cause, Electronic Screen Syndrome (ESS). Dr. Dunckley has found that everyday use of interactive screen devices — such as computers, video games, smartphones, and tablets — can easily overstimulate a child’s nervous system, triggering a variety of stubborn symptoms. In contrast, she’s discovered that a strict, extended electronic fast single-handedly improves mood, focus, sleep, and behavior, regardless of the child’s diagnosis. It also reduces the need for medication and renders other treatments more effective. Offered now in this book, this simple intervention can produce a life-changing shift in brain function and help your child get back on track — all without cost or medication. While no one in today’s connected world can completely shun electronic stimuli, Dr. Dunckley provides hope for parents who feel that their child has been misdiagnosed or inappropriately medicated, by presenting an alternative explanation for their child’s difficulties and a concrete plan for treating them.

Ratings and reviews

This book changed everything! The results were night and day after stopping screens with my daughter. No more tablet time (rip tablet) TV and computers phones, just good old fashion outside time and indoor fun for 4 weeksl. The author tells you exactly how to put it in practice. My daughter is a different human and can deal with life again after doing the electronic fast. We know 100% that her issue was screens. TV is actually not that much of an issue, true to what the author wrote. But gaming and interaction with phones and tablets. Those are the bad brain triggers. Now I know, and I'm extremely thankful to her writing this book. If you even slightly think your child could have a reaction to screens, start reading and put into practice everything she says. The one downside is that you will have to make the commitment to have things for your child to do that replaces the screens. Do it for your child. Once the 4 weeks is up you can introduce the TV back as a test.

About the author

Victoria L. Dunckley, MD, is an award-winning integrative psychiatrist who has appeared as a mental health expert on such media outlets as the TODAY show, NBC Nightly News, and the Investigation Discovery network. In the past ten years, her Reset Program has helped more than five hundred children, teens, and young adults who failed to respond to conventional treatment alone. She lives and practices in Los Angeles.