Teenagers with Add: A Parents' Guide

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Parents, educators, and health professionals rely on this best selling guide to understand and cope with teenagers with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). With a positive outlook, this book covers symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, accommodations, advocacy, legal rights, family & school life, and options after high school. Appropriate interventions are discussed for troubling behaviors such as sleep disturbances, learning problems, depression, and driving problems. Abundant anecdotal information provide insight and advice to successfully navigate the teenage years.


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A review... "Parents and teachers of teenagers frequently lament the lack of a guide for answering myriad questions posed by teenagers' typical challenges of struggle for control and confusion with emerging identity. Add to these challenges difficulty focusing attention, resisting impulses, or remaining still, and you will understand the necessity of a manual for how to live and work with teens with ADD. This comprehensive book offers all the basic information necessary to understand the condition, get help, and provide appropriate guidance for adolescents with ADD. Chapters include definitions, diagnosis, medical treatment, and legal rights. Discussions regarding family dynamics, advocacy roles, and options for postschool life are insightful. With sensitivity and understanding, the author approaches several essential topics: self-esteem, troubled interpersonal relationships, academic failure, disorganization, substance abuse, and driving problems. Teenagers with ADD has something for everyone associated with this population. It is alive with quotes and photographs. The final chapter, Words of Wisdom from the Kids, would be excellent reading for teenagers in helping them express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Figures and tables summarize major points and could be used by parents and speakers for presentations to a wide variety of audiences. Sample forms could be duplicated or adapted to meet a range of home and school needs." --Intervention in School and Clinic, September 1996


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At last, a book for parents and professionals about adolescents with Attention Deficit Disorder. Teenagers With ADD takes a comprehensive look at the special issues and challenges faced by these teens, their families, teachers, and treatment professionals. Based upon the most current diagnostic criteria available and incorporating ADD literature and research, Teenagers With ADD provides a complete introduction to all forms of ADD and discusses:DefinitionsDiagnosisMedical TreatmentFamily and School LifeInterventionAdvocacyLegal RightsOptions after High SchoolTeenagers With ADD examines typical troubling behaviors, provides perspective for parents of diagnosed teens, and assists other parents in determining whether ADD is affecting their child. Hallmark characteristics of the disorder that affect home and school life and methods for overcoming these difficulties are described, including:poor self-esteemtroubled interpersonal relationshipslearning problems & academic failureforgetfulness & disorganizationsubstance abusetruancy & school suspensionsimpulsivityinattentivenesslethargysleep disturbancesdriving problemsdefianceThroughout are the voices of teens, parents, educators, and professionals who describe the peaks and valleys of life with ADD, providing insight, hope, support, and advice for successfully navigating the teenage years.


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