| View Larger Image | ADHD Comorbidities: Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults | Hardcoverby Thomas Brown (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 478 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 10, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 445,952th |
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The only book that covers the multiple ways in which ADHD is complicated by other psychiatric and learning disorders in both children and adults, ADHD Comorbidities: Handbook for ADHD Complications in Children and Adults features comprehensive, research-based information on ADHD and its full range of coexisting syndromes. Contributing researcher-clinicians, familiar with the complications that additional disorders pose, summarize in accessible language what is currently known about ADHD and its comorbidities, from preschool age to adulthood. These authors describe how ADHD leads to different profiles at different stages of development and how to adjust treatment strategies for both ADHD and additional disorders to reduce the impairments resulting from their combination. The book offers a new paradigm for understanding ADHD, viewing it not as a simple behavior disorder but as a complex developmental impairment of executive functions in the brain. This important handbook gives developmental context to ADHD by describing how symptoms at preschool onset differ from those of older age at onset. Clinicians will find practical help for patients whose ADHD appears in conjunction with 11 other syndromes from mood disorders to developmental coordination disorder and acquire valuable guidance on adapting and adjusting medications and other interventions to optimize treatment effects for the wide diversity of complex cases that embody ADHD. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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I give it 5 stars just for Chapter 18 alone by Anonymous (USA)  5 Stars
December 31, 2000
Actually, I only read chapter 18, by Stephen Mcdermott. He describes the struggle of having ADHD so dead on, I had a catharsis. Mcdermott does a case study of a fellow named Jack as he goes through high-school and college. Jack notices that he has to study much harder than his peers, and uses such specific information about specific aspects of himself to make generalizations about himself as a person.My only problem with this chapter is that it wasn't copyedited well (does anyone know how to get in touch with Thomas Brown or American Psychiatric Press?)On the last line of page 584 it reads: "The agenda can prevent the therapy from becoming focused on a "crisis du jour," whereby therapists deal only with the crises and catastrophes that patients bring into the session to-week continuity they need to solidly acquire a set of skills."Then a little further down before and after page 587: To set the stage for other techniques to work, the activation of the beliefs attention needs to be interrupted in order to decrease the stimulation of the activated belief. Even with these two glaring errors, the chapter is still worth it. I remain anonymous because I have been fired twice for having ADHD (If you don't know that the Americans with Disabilites Act is a big joke, then you haven't been paying attention (no pun intended)).
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