This easily read and understood book will help teenagers and adults and successfully cope with their ADD in their personal lives as well as their academic work lives. Equally important, the authors describe in meaningful detail the frequent complications that often mask ADD and interfere with successful treatment, particularly violence and addictions. The rich clinical illustrations and the practical advice address critical yet often neglected management issues such as interpersonal problems with significant others, consideration and planning for further education and training and how to deal with the workplace.
Covers the symptoms of, and treatment for this distressing disorder which undermines children's performance at school and persists into adulthood.
Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder and Addiction
Tendência à distração: identificação e gerência do distúrbio do déficit de atenção (DDA) da infância à vida adulta
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN RELATIONSHIPS PAUL AND MARCY GOT MARRIED ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO . IT WAS Paul's third marriage , Marcy's first . They met , fell in love , and married within just a few months . Marcy was elatedbut she didn't know this ...
This is the first update (20-25% of the material is new) of the 1996 paperback edition, which has netted more that 150,000 copies, of You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?, one of the bestselling titles on ADD ever written.
Can drugs cure Attention Deficit Disorder? Why are some ADD children and adults more successful that their normal peers? What professions are best for ADD people?
By hilariously taking down the mental health community and playing devil's advocate, all the negative labels slapped on ADHD are resuscitated and reframed into positive strengths.
Why I couldn't make a model airplane like the other kids. Why I killed a pregnant guppy fish. Why I kept losing my car keys. And more." -Douglas A Puryear MD, psychiatrist, ADDer "This is the book on ADD that I always hoped I was buying.
"Developed through her own personal experience as an adult with ADD and her years as a professional ADD coach, Jennifer has isolated the five essential skills for managing adult ADD"--Back cover.
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