Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Books For Parents & Adults Living with A.D.H.D.
Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach
Over the past 30 years, Dr. Monastra has treated more than 15,000 clients who have ADHD. In this indispensable book he shares the knowledge he has gained. Engaging and straightforward, the book is directed at parents of children who have, or might have, ADHD. In a conversational style, Monastra offers a series of sequential lessons, beginning with the causes of ADHD and the most common medical treatments. He discusses all the relevant issues for parents, including psychological treatment, diet, educational laws, and practical coping strategies for both parents and children.
ADHD: How to Raise an Explosive Child: The Definitive Guide on How to Deal With Hyperactive and Distracted Children With Tips and Strategies for a Positive Parenting Approach and Kids Self-Regulation
Uncover a practical and heartfelt workbook to help children with ADHD learn to thrive!
Are you searching for an honest and down-to-earth exploration of ADHD? Are you feeling overwhelmed, and you’re not sure how to help your child succeed? Or are you searching for tested methods to empower your child and help them to practice healthy emotional growth and development? Then this book is for you.
The ADD & ADHD Answer Book: Professional Answers to 275 of the Top Questions Parents Ask ADD and ADHD are estimated to affect at least 3 to 7 percent of school-age children and the amount of information available on the subject can be overwhelming, confusing and oftentimes, conflicting. The ADD & ADHD Answer Book is a reassuring, authoritative reference for you and your family, providing sound advice and immediate answers to your most pressing questions. The book also includes questionnaires and checklists to help you get the most out of your child's evaluation.
The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids with ADHD, Anxiety, and More: What Parents and Teachers Really Need to Know to Empower Complicated Kids with Confidence and Calm
The Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids is a wake-up call, a clear path for action, and a message of inspiration, providing a reality-based recipe for raising complex kids, while not making yourself (or your family) crazy in the process.
Parenting expert Elaine Taylor-Klaus of ImpactADHD.com walks you through a proven coach-approach method that provides essential tools for clearly setting effective and realistic expectations for your kids to eliminate daily battles and constant upheaval.
It doesn’t matter if your child has ADHD, anxiety, learning disabilities, autism, depression, ODD, or attachment issues—complex kids struggle with some aspects of life and learning, and they need your understanding and support.
The Myth of the ADHD Child, Revised Edition: 101 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span Without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion
A fully revised and updated edition of the groundbreaking book on tackling the root causes of children’s attention and behavior problems rather than masking the symptoms with medication.
More than twenty years after Dr. Thomas Armstrong's Myth of the A.D.D. Child first published, he presents much needed updates and insights in this substantially revised edition. When The Myth of the A.D.D. Child was first published in 1995, Dr. Thomas Armstrong made the controversial argument that many behaviors labeled as ADD or ADHD are simply a child's active response to complex social, emotional, and educational influences. In this fully revised and updated edition, Dr. Armstrong shows readers how to address the underlying causes of a child's attention and behavior problems in order to help their children implement positive changes in their lives.
Understanding Girls with ADHD: How They Feel and Why They Do What They Do
In this expanded and updated book, Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen Littman, and Patricia Quinn rise to the occasion and deliver a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable book that illuminates the complexity of ADHD in girls and women, both across the lifespan and across multiple domains of life (e.g. home, school, the workplace, close relationships). Blending clinical examples, case material, and a masterful synthesis of research findings around the world, the authors reveal the roots of ADHD in females during the preschool years, also summarizing relevant causal factors, and display the highly individualized journeys through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood that these girls and women face.
ADHD - Raising An Explosive Child: A Mind-Body Parenting Approach To Thrive From Distraction Hyperactive Childhood. How To Understand ADD And Learn ... Strategies To Self-Regulate In Adulthood
Does Your Child Have ADHD? Learn How to Help Them Achieve Everything They Set Their Mind on, Despite Their Condition!
Was your child diagnosed with ADHD? There's no need to panic.
Discover how to deal with ADHD in children and help your child thrive in life, no matter what.
Has your child's behavior started changing suddenly? Does your child suddenly have outbursts such as crying, screaming, biting, kicking, hitting, or even destroying property? Dealing with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) might seem challenging at first. But there's nothing to be afraid of. ADHD is one of the most misunderstood conditions. Many consider it a hindering disorder with no cure. Even though medication and therapy help, parents also need to find a unique strategy that will help them deal with their child.
ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens
The most comprehensive ADHD resource available! This practical workbook gives you the most effective, and proven, non-medication treatment approaches and skills.
Step-by-step instructions on tailoring psychotherapy to ADHD
ADHD-friendly parenting skills
Techniques for emotional and behavioral regulation
The most comprehensive ADHD resource available! This practical workbook gives you the most effective, and proven, non-medication treatment approaches and skills.
Step-by-step instructions on tailoring psychotherapy to ADHD
ADHD-friendly parenting skills
Techniques for emotional and behavioral regulation
Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning
Proven strategies for strengthening executive functioning skills and overcoming adult ADHD symptoms
Executive functioning skills―including focus, organization, stress management, and more―are critical to succeeding in all aspects of your life. Whether you’ve just been diagnosed with ADHD or you’ve lived with it your entire life, you know that developing these skills can be a challenge. Thriving with Adult ADHD offers a toolbox of information, assessments, and evidence-based exercises to help you build this mental skill set and take control of your ADHD.
Make real, sustainable changes with practical guidance and activities for sharpening your memory and attention, learning to plan and organize, strengthening your mental flexibility, enhancing your emotional regulation, improving your impulse control, and living your best life.
Taking Charge of ADHD, Fourth Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents
The leading parent resource about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment has now been revised and updated with the latest information and resources. Prominent authority Russell A. Barkley compassionately guides you to:
*Understand why kids with ADHD act the way they do.
*Get an accurate diagnosis.
*Work with school and health care professionals to find needed support.
*Implement a proven eight-step behavior management plan.
*Build your child's academic and social skills.
*Restore harmony at home.
ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood
A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction
World-renowned authors Dr. Edward M. Hallowell and Dr. John J. Ratey literally “wrote the book” on ADD/ADHD more than two decades ago. Their bestseller, Driven to Distraction, largely introduced this diagnosis to the public and sold more than a million copies along the way.
Now, most people have heard of ADHD and know someone who may have it. But lost in the discussion of both childhood and adult diagnosis of ADHD is the potential upside: Many hugely successful entrepreneurs and highly creative people attribute their achievements to ADHD. Also unknown to most are the recent research developments, including innovations that give a clearer understanding of the ADHD brain in action.
The Disconnected Kids Nutrition Plan: Proven Strategies to Enhance Learning and Focus for Children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Disorders
A scientifically developed program for feeding kids with special needs--based on the popular Brain Balance Program
Dr. Robert Melillo’s Brain Balance program has helped thousands of families across the country, offering a drug-free, scientifically based method for addressing a wide range of conditions, including autism spectrum disorders and ADHD. In this new book, he presents the nutritional side of the Brain Balance Program, featuring guidelines, tips, and kid-friendly recipes based on the latest scientific research on how food affects the brain.
Self-Regulation and Mindfulness: Over 82 Exercises & Worksheets for Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, & Autism Spectrum Disorder
Varleisha Gibbs, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, has created a unique, evidence-based resource for helping children who have trouble self-regulating, staying focused, managing their senses and controlling their emotions.
Based on the latest research in neuroscience, Self-Regulation & Mindfulness provides highly practical, kid friendly lessons to teach therapists, parents, educators and children about their brain and body, so they can build the needed skills to self-regulate.
- Hands-on activities
- Step-by-step exercises
- Coloring pages and worksheets
Eating for Autism: The 10-Step Nutrition Plan to Help Treat Your Child’s Autism, Asperger’s, or ADHD
What your child eats has a major impact on his brain and body function. Eating for Autism is the first book to explain how an autism, Asperger's, PDD-NOS, or ADHD condition can effectively be treated through diet. Eating for Autism presents a realistic 10-step plan to change your child's diet, starting with essential foods and supplements and moving to more advanced therapies like the Gluten-Free Casein-Free diet. Parents who have followed Strickland's revolutionary plan have reported great improvements in their child's condition, from his mood, sleeping patterns, learning abilities, and behavior to his response to other treatment approaches. Complete with 75 balanced, kid-friendly recipes, and advice on overcoming sensory and feeding skill problems, Eating for Autism is an essential resource to help a child reach his full potential.
All Natural Mom's Guide to the Feingold Diet: A Natural Approach to ADHD and Other Related Disorders
Do you have a child with ADHD or other related issues? Or do you just want to learn more about how dyes, artificial flavors, certain preservatives, and even some natural foods like fruit can have a profound and detrimental impact on your child's behavior, learning, and overall health? Sheri Davis gives you an insider, behind the scenes look at what the Feingold Diet entails and how to get started. She describes some of the abuse going on in food manufacturing and describes the various labeling loopholes. She teaches you how to avoid the most detrimental chemicals in food. She shares the specific ingredients to avoid, where to find these foods, and provides recipes to help you get started. She also describes the difference between stage one and stage two of the Feingold Diet, what salicylates are and how they can affect your child. She does all this in an easy to read writing style, sharing stories from her own family’s experiences with the diet.
DISCLAIMER: I am not an Therapist. I am an adult who has ADHD, a parent to children who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and now a Grandma. The information on this website is not medical advice and does not replace the information that your child's therapists gives you. These are just ideas and information that I have learned myself over the years of being a parent and an adult living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. (ADHD) If you are concerned for your child, please always seek medical attention through a family doctor, pediatrician or therapist. This website is for informational purposes only. Each child is different and what works for one child may not for another. Please always consult with a professional.
