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Teenagers With ADD: A Parents’ Guide (The Special-Needs Collection)
11Jun2008 Filed under: with you chris brown Author: admin
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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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06月 11th, 2008 at 12:46 am
By Carol Watkins “Psychiatrist” (Baltimore, MD United States)
This is another excellent book by Chris Ziegler Dendy. The author presents practical information that will help parents in their day to day struggle to deal with the changing world of an adolescent with ADHD. She clearly has dealt with some of these stiuations herself, so she brings humorous and compassionate anecdotes to illustrate the factual material. I would highly recommend this and her other books on the practical aspects of dealing with adolescents with ADHD
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06月 11th, 2008 at 12:47 am
By K. Mallory (Seabrook, Texas USA)
I can’t say how helpful this book has been. As I read it that first night, it felt as if it was written directly for me. My 8th grade daughter has had and still does have all the ups and downs of Jr. High. I felt this book turned a light on and pointed me in the right direction. We have been dealing with ADD issues a few years now and it reminded me I am not alone, that it will work out and it also relieved a lot of stress so that I was more able to help my daughter. Thank you.
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06月 11th, 2008 at 12:49 am
By Cecily Hayward (Sacramento, CA USA)
This book was so helpful to me! My 13-year-old son was just diagnosed with ADD and it was a God send. It has so many great suggestions, stories and advice. I stayed up all night reading it! It was like an autobiogrpahy of my son for the past few years. He was especially relieved to figure out what was wrong and read the other kid’s experiences.
It was also helpful for me on how to advise my son’s teachers of special care that he needs. The appendix for teachers in the back is an excellent tool to give to teachers so they can develop a good basic understanding of the condition.
The book doesn’t have much on the medication Adderal which was what our doctor recommended. The information on accompanying sleep disturbances was excellent - our doctor didn’t even know about it.