It's Nobody's Fault (44 page)

H
AROLD
S. K
oplewicz
, M.D., is one of America’s foremost child and adolescent psychiatrists and an expert in pediatric psychopharmacology. A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Koplewicz is vice chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University Medical Center-Bellevue Hospital Center. The division was the first child and adolescent psychiatry program in the United States. Currently professor of clinical psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, he is the director of the NYU Child Study Center and editor of the
Child Study Center Letter.
He has been a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners and a commissioner of the New York State Commission on the Study of Youth, Crime and Violence and Reform of the Juvenile Justice System.

As a clinician, Dr. Koplewicz sees hundreds of new patients a year from all over the world. A May 1996
New York
magazine special report called the “Best Doctors in New York” featured Dr. Koplewicz, and he was listed as one of
Good Housekeeping’s
“Best Mental Health Experts.” He is the recipient of many awards, including the 1997 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill as well as the Reiger Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists.

Dr. Koplewicz is a well-respected teacher and a national child expert. He has lectured internationally and is cited frequently as an expert in many publications, including
New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Child
, and others. He is a member of the advisory board of
Parents
magazine. Dr. Koplewicz appears regularly on radio and television, including
Today, Good Morning America, Dateline, CBS This Morning
, and
National Public Radio.

Dr. Koplewicz lives in New York City with his wife and their three sons.

Copyright © 1996 by Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D.

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This book was originally published in hardcover by Times Books, a
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Koplewicz, Harold S.
It’s nobody’s fault: new hope and help for difficult children and
their parents/Harold S. Koplewicz.
1. Child psychiatry—popular works.    I. Title.
RJ499.34.K67        1996
618.92′89—dc20        95-39396

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