ADHD
Book - 2024
"Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most globally prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders. ADHD For Dummies explores living a healthy and fulfilling life with ADHD, from seeking diagnosis to choosing the right treatment path for you or your loved one. You'll read about the latest in ADHD research, equipping you with valuable knowledge as you care for a child with ADHD or explore your own ADHD symptoms as an adult. This book provides the answers you need on how to deal with day-to-day challenges at home, school, and work, and how to find support and counseling. With appropriate management, anyone can live a great life with ADHD. Learn what ADHD is--and what it isn't. Get up to date with the latest inf...ormation on ADHD, including medications and non-medical treatments. Find the right professional to help you get the support you or your children need. This is the perfect Dummies guide for both parents of children with ADHD and adults with ADHD looking to learn more. Teachers, counselors, and therapists--this is also a great resource to educate yourself and your clients"--
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Second edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781394219087
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. The ABCs of ADHD
- Chapter 1. ADHD Basics
- Identifying Symptoms of ADHD
- Peering into primary symptoms
- Seeing a few secondary symptoms
- Clueing in on ADHD's Origins
- Getting a Diagnosis of ADHD
- Choosing your professional
- Preparing for the evaluation process
- Viewing Various Treatment Approaches
- Recognizing ADHD's Role in Your Life
- Accentuating the positive
- Dealing with daily life
- Chapter 2. Exploring the Causes of ADHD
- Gaining Perspective from Past Theories
- Coming at ADHD Research from All Sides
- Examining Self-Regulation's Role in ADHD
- Recognizing self-regulation as a core issue
- Linking executive brain functions and self-regulation
- Exploring Current ADHD Research
- Genetic
- Anatomical
- Functional
- Chemical
- Getting Down to the Bottom Line
- Chapter 3. The Many Facets of ADHD
- Picturing the Primary Symptoms of ADHD
- Inattention/distractibility
- Impulsivity
- Restlessness/hyperactivity
- Considering Some Secondary Symptoms
- Anticipation of failure
- Worry
- Boredom
- Loss of motivation/feelings of hopelessness
- Frustration
- Low self-esteem
- Sleep disturbances
- Substance abuse
- Facing ADHD in Different Populations
- Children
- Adolescents
- Adults
- Women
- Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)
- LGBTQIA+
- Part 2. Diagnosing ADHD
- Chapter 4. Moving Forward with a Diagnosis
- Help Wanted: Searching for the Right Person or People
- ADHD specialist
- Family physician
- Pediatrician
- Psychologist
- Clinical social worker
- ADHD coach
- Psychiatrist
- Neurologist
- Neuropsychiatrist/behavioral neurologist
- Educational diagnostician
- Speech-language pathologist
- Occupational therapist
- Other professionals you may encounter
- Examining Your Values
- Digging into your ideas about diagnosis
- Tackling your thoughts on treatment
- Evaluating Your ADHD Professional
- Selecting a diagnostician
- Partnering up for treatment
- Getting a Second Opinion
- Managing Your Care
- Being Eligible for Services
- Gettinga diagnosis for legal purposes
- Examining your insurance coverage
- Seeking out school services
- Chapter 5. Navigating the Evaluation Process
- Preparing for the Evaluation Process
- Mental Health Evaluations
- Medical Testing
- Educational Testing
- Motor, Cognitive, and Social Skills Testing
- Behavioral Assessment
- Performance Testing and Your Ability to Maintain Attention
- Knowing What to Do after Diagnosis
- Chapter 6. Investigating Conditions with ADHD-like Symptoms
- Understanding Differential Diagnosis: Sorting Out Your Symptoms
- Mental Disorders Sharing Features with ADHD
- Anxiety disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Pervasive developmental disorders
- Learning disorders
- Oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Sleep disorders
- Tourette's syndrome
- Medical Conditions: Making a Physical Connection
- Allergies and sensitivities
- Epilepsy
- Thyroid dysfunction
- Brain conditions
- Sensory Processing Disorders Overlapping with ADHD
- Central auditory processing disorder
- Visual processing disorder
- Pseudo-ADHD and Environmental Influences
- Part 3. Treating ADHD
- Chapter 7. Choosing the Best Treatment Options for You
- Understanding the Three Levels of Treatment
- Biological treatments
- Psychological treatments
- Social treatments
- Trying Multiple Treatments Together
- Developing Your Plan for Treatment
- Naming your challenges
- Identifying your goals
- Sifting through the options
- Prioritizing which treatments to do when
- Combining approaches safely
- Following your progress
- Keeping Up-to-Date on New Therapies
- Attending conferences
- Browsing the Internet and social media
- Reading professional journal articles
- Participating in support group meetings
- Chapter 8. Managing Medication
- Considering Whether Medication is Right for You
- Understanding How ADHD Medications Work
- Exploring Medication Types
- Stimulants
- Nonstimulant ADHD medication
- Non-SNRI antidepressants
- Antihypertensives
- Monitoring Your Success with Medication
- Recognizing positive results
- Singling out side effects
- Charting your progress
- Knowing when to call it quits on medication
- Chapter 9. Queuing Up Counseling, Coaching, and Training
- Thinking about How Counseling Can Add to Your Treatment Plan
- Exploring Counseling and Therapy Options
- Understanding yourself through insight-oriented therapy
- Benefiting from supportive therapy
- Considering cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Changing it up with behavior modification
- Expressing yourself through play therapy
- Adding to your toolbox with psychoeducational counseling
- Bringing everyone together for family therapy
- Getting into group therapy
- Beefing up your treatment with support groups
- Adding an ADHD Coach to Your Treatment Team
- Looking at Training to Help You Develop Important Skills
- Keeping awareness training in mind
- Putting yourself in parent training
- Improving yourself through skills training
- Finding the Right Counselor, Coach, or Trainer for You
- Chapter 10. Managing Problem Behaviors
- Taking Behavior 101
- Association
- Feed forward/feedback
- Behavioral therapy basics
- Looking at Behavioral Treatment Strategies
- Behavior modification
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Awareness training
- Chapter 11. Considering How Nutrition, Supplements, and Your Environment May Impact ADHD
- Digging Into a Healthy Diet
- Drinking more water
- Adding essential fatty acids
- Being alert to food allergies and sensitivities
- Cracking down on simple carbohydrates
- Providing plenty of protein
- Saying goodbye to sugars
- Balancing your body's yeast
- Viewing Vitamin and Herb Supplements
- Considering supportive supplements for better overall health
- Taking specific supplements to support your nervous system
- Nutraceuticals: Combining Vitamins and Herbs
- Addressing Possible Aggravators in Your Environment
- Allergens
- Chemicals
- Chapter 12. Examining Neuromodulation Therapies
- Altering Brain Activity Through Neurofeedback
- Getting some background on neurofeedback
- Exploring the neurofeedback process
- Knowing what to expect from neurofeedback
- Finding a neurofeedback provider
- Using Auditory Brain Stimulation to Ease ADHD Symptoms
- Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention (REI)
- Tomatis-based approaches
- Binaural beats
- Using Electrical Brain Stimulation to Dim Your ADHD Symptoms
- Tracing electrical brain stimulation to its start
- Keeping current on electrical brain stimulation processes
- Knowing what to expect from electrical brain stimulation
- Finding a transcranial electrical brain stimulation provider
- Making Sense of Magnetic Brain Stimulation
- Getting some background on transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Exploring the transcranial magnetic stimulation process
- Knowing what to expect when using TMS
- Finding a transcranial magnetic stimulation provider
- Chapter 13. Getting a Handle on Rebalancing Therapies
- Balancing Energy through Acupuncture
- Understanding the practice of acupuncture
- Exploring the acupuncture process
- Knowing what results to expect from acupuncture
- Finding an acupuncture provider
- Helping Your Body Heal Itself with Homeopathy
- Understanding the practice of homeopathy
- Exploring the process of homeopathy
- Knowing what results to expect from homeopathy
- Finding a homeopathy provider
- Using Manipulation Therapies
- Understanding the practice of manipulation therapy
- Exploring the manipulation therapy process
- Knowing what results to expect from manipulation therapy
- Finding a provider for manipulation therapy
- Assisting Your Brain with Processing Sensory Information
- Understanding the practice of sensory integration
- Exploring the process of sensory integration
- Knowing what results to expect from sensory integration
- Finding a provider for sensory integration
- Looking Into Vision Therapies
- Understanding the practice of vision therapy
- Exploring the vision therapy process
- Knowing what results to expect from vision therapy
- Finding a vision therapy provider
- Part 4. Living with ADHD
- Chapter 14. Accentuating the Positive
- Seeing the Positive in Your Symptoms
- Examining Areas of Aptitude
- Capitalizing on creativity
- Capturing chaos
- Accessing energy
- Recognizing your risk-taking nature
- Supporting your desire for independence
- Exploring ambition
- Leaning into intuition
- Examining adaptability
- Assessing athleticism
- Finding and Nurturing the Areas Where You Excel
- Chapter 15. Creating Harmony at Home
- Laying the Foundation for a Healthy Homelife
- Exercising empathy
- Effectively expressing emotions
- Focusing on clear and effective communication
- Acknowledging your appreciation
- Defusing conflict
- Healing the past
- Being realistic
- Improving Your Homelife When You Have ADHD
- Managing moods
- Taking responsibility
- Being Single and Dating with ADHD
- Handling issues with hyperfocusing and novelty
- Sticking with it Song term
- Parenting a Child with ADHD
- Preventing problems
- Dealing with discipline
- Raising more than one child
- Encouraging play and fun
- Enhancing self-esteem
- Parenting as a team
- Living with a Partner Who Has ADHD
- Working together
- Staying close
- Taking time for yourself
- Adopting Good Habits
- Getting organized
- Exercising regularly
- Limiting media
- Ensuring the best sleep possible
- Chapter 16. Creating Success at School
- Overcoming Challenges at Any Age
- Addressing elementary school issues
- Managing middle school difficulties
- Handling high schooi challenges
- Cluing into college challenges
- Getting to Know Your Legal Rights
- Having realistic expectations
- Examining IDEA
- Utilizing Section 504
- Addressing Your Child's Needs: Developing an Educational Plan
- Understanding what an educational plan is
- Getting involved
- Developing an accurate plan
- Keeping tabs on the progress
- Getting the Most from Your Child's Teachers
- Looking for the right teacher
- Working with your child's teacher
- Documenting Your School Experiences
- Dealing with Difficult Times in School
- Lunchtime and recess
- Transitions
- Opportunities for socialization
- Interactions with some teachers and administrators
- Exploring Schooling Alternatives
- Working with Your Child at Home
- Helping with homework
- Arranging for a private tutor
- Supporting self-esteem
- Helping your child stay organized
- Chapter 17. Winning at Work
- Getting an Overview of ADHD Challenges at Work
- To Tell or Not to Tell: Sharing Your Diagnosis with Coworkers
- Legally speaking: Understanding your rights
- Practically speaking: Making your decision
- Managing Yourself
- Working on Work Relationships
- Paying attention to office dynamics
- Dealing with authority
- Getting along with coworkers
- Working remotely
- Being the boss
- Doing Day-to-Day Tasks
- Getting organized
- Managing your time
- Handling larger projects
- Staying focused
- Dealing with details
- Creating Overall Success for Yourself
- Finding the right field for you
- Pondering long-term plans
- Making your current job work for you
- Understanding your value in the workplace
- Striking a healthy work-life balance
- Going It Alone: Being Self-Employed
- Part 5. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 18. Ten (Plus) Tips to Organize Your Life
- Writing Down Ideas and Appointments
- Setting Reminders
- Organizing Your Time
- Employing Technology
- Charting Your Schedule
- Planning Ahead
- Completing Your Projects
- Breaking things down
- Making a plan
- Taking one step at a time
- Cutting Clutter Off at the Source
- Putting Things in Their Places
- Creating a Color-Coding System
- Deciding What's Really Important to You
- Chapter 19. Ten (or So) Ways to Improve Your Family Relationships
- Taking Responsibility
- Focusing on the Positive
- Releasing Anger and Resentment
- Getting Rid of Guilt
- Talking It Out
- Working Together
- Having Regular Family Meetings
- Being Realistic
- Having Fun Together
- Walking Away before Blowing Up
- Prioritizing Time to Destress
- Chapter 20. Ten Resources for More Information and Ongoing Support
- Internet Forums
- Websites
- Support Groups
- Your Child's School
- Local Colleges and Universities
- Your ADHD Professional
- Books on Specific Aspects of ADHD
- The Library
- Family and Friends
- Talk Therapy
- Appendix: Treatment Tracking Forms
- Index