You might also like

More about Parenting the ADD Child

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 102 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Children with ADHD can be a parenting nightmare. They can be disruptive and destructive and do not respond to guidance like other children. Medication may reduce symptoms, but disruptive behaviour often persists. Is there anything that the parent can do to create change? Based on ten years' experience working with families and their children with ADHD, this book explores the dilemmas facing parents with an ADD child. About two per cent of children in the developed world are currently receiving the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder and diagnosis rates are increasing. The true incidence may be as high as five per cent. This would mean that up to 30,000 children a year in the UK alone may have ADHD. Aimed at reducing the conflicts and friction that are often a part of home and school life, the author introduces the ADDapt approach to solving behaviour problems. Addapt stands for ADD alternative parenting techniques: it is a complete, practical, easy-to-follow programme to enable parents working on their own to ameliorate disruptive behaviour patterns common to ADD. This step-by-step approach has been piloted with over 150 families and has proved to be very helpful in bringing harmony back into the parents' relationship with their child. This work brings together for the first time a variety of tried and tested methods in a comprehensive and accessible format, and goes beyond the identification of the symptoms to tackle the changes parents can make, to ensure that behaviour problems associated with ADHD are managed and reduced.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Parenting the ADD Child
• Subtitle: Can't Do? Won't Do? Practical Strategies for Managing Behaviour Problems in Children with ADD and ADHD
• Author: David Pentecost
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781853028113
• ISBN: 1853028118
• ID: 04297659
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Weight: 316 g
• Dimensions: 243 × 172 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2000

Trending among others

---

---

---