Product Description
This comprehensive guide to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) offers parents balanced, reassuring, and authoritative information to help them understand and manage this challenging and often misunderstood condition. Based on the American Academy of Pediatrics' own clinical practice guidelines for ADHD and written in clear, accessible language, this book answers the common questions: How is ADHD diagnosed?, What are today's best treatment options, and Will my child outgrow ADHD? Accurate, up-to-date findings on evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions, and unproven treatments are provided. Also addressed are behaviors associated with the teenage years and what schools can do to support children with the condition. ADHD management strategies that balance the roles of behavior therapy, medications, and parenting techniques are suggested.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 8 reviews)

Excellent guide for new ADHD parents! by A. Lents (Indianapolis, IN)

5 Stars
August 26, 2009
My son was just diagnosed with ADHD a few months ago so during my deer-in-headlights phase, I really needed something that would give me the answers to all the questions I had without slant or bias. ("Medicine is WONDERFUL!" or "Medicine is HORRIBLE!!" That kind of thing.) This book does a wonderful job of that. It touches on all the various aspects of the disorder and how parents can help navigate their child through this challenging diagnosis. I highly recommend that every doctor who is telling a parent that their child has ADHD prescribe this to the parents!

This is old school, meant to sell drugs...... by John S. Mcgrath (Minneapolis, MN)

1 Stars
August 20, 2009
I know from personal experience as well as reading the book, this is just a propaganda book for putting kids on medication. There are kids who have ADHD, probably about 10% of those actually diagnosed. Exercise, Diet, structure, that is what the kids who do not have ADHD are missing when misdiagnosed. Even some kids with less serious cases of ADHD can be treated properly with exercise, diet, and structure/routine. The industry is selling us a story to sell drugs and many parents are using the drugs to escape accountability and an unwillingness to put in the effort it takes to be the parent your child needs you to be for them. I suggest reading"The Great Misdiagnosis ADHD" by Julian Stuart Haber, MD. It is far more honest and enlightening. When a medical doctor is trying to claim he is an expert on health and wellness and he or she is 100-200 pounds overweight and in very poor health, how is that they should even be taken seriously?

great book by Debbie Milam (Weston)

5 Stars
May 29, 2009
Understanding your child's attentional challenges can help your child be the best they can be A Moment of Peace: Relaxation for Parents AudiobookA Moment of Peace: Relaxation for Children

Great Book by K. Gentile (Mass.)

5 Stars
May 07, 2007
This was a very good book that gave several view points. I found it extremely helpful with understanding ADHD.

This book opened my eyes, I didn't know anything about adhd before by Arcelia Alas

5 Stars
January 18, 2007
I recomend this book to parents and teachers alike, this book opens your eyes, it makes you understand why your child acts the way they do.

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