Hearing Voices Movement - Children Hearing Voices - What You Need To Know and What You Can Do

What You Need To Know and What You Can Do

Children Hearing Voices — What You Need To Know and What You Can Do is a book by Romme and Escher. It provides support and practical solutions for the experience of hearing voices. It is in two parts, one part for voice-hearing children, the other part for parents and adult carers. This book has mainly been written for children who hear voices. The information in this book is largely derived from a three-year study amongst 80 children and adolescents who were interviewed about their experiences. The children ranged in age from 8 to 19 years at first contact.

Little is known about voice hearing in children. Most people still have this notion that it is a disease for life. In this book, readers will find extensive information about how to look differently at voice hearing; learning to deal with it and discovering what might help to cope with the voices. The book's idea came after the authors realized the dearth of information available for parents of children hearing voices, and that if parents found information, it was almost always based on the assumption that voice hearing was a serious disease. The authors noticed that the children of those parents who determined to search and "go their own way" were doing better. This book is for these parents.