Your Hyperactive Child: A Parent's Guide to Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder

by Barbara Ingersoll, Judith L. Rapoport (Foreword by)

Overview

The authoritative handbook provides a wealth of urgently needed information to help parents of a hyperactive child understand and cope with their child's baffling behavior.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307768643
Publisher:	Crown Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/04/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	4 MB

Table of Contents

	List of Figures	xi
	Foreword	xiii
	Author's Note	xv
1	What Is Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?	1
	Diagnostic Guidelines	5
	Through the Years: The Hyperactive Child from Infancy to Adulthood	8
2	Is My Child Hyperactive?	27
	Diagnosing and Evaluating the Hyperactive Child	27
	How Does a Doctor Make the Diagnosis?	27
	Coping with a Diagnosis of ADHD	46
3	What Causes Hyperactivity?	49
	Are Parents to Blame?	50
	Was My Child Born This Way?	54
	Is It Something in His Environment?	55
	Is It Hereditary?	57
	Is It Caused by Disturbances in the Brain?	59
4	What Can We Do About It?	65
	Medical Treatment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder	65
	Stimulant Medication	66
	Other Medications Used to Treat ADHD	84
	Other Physical Approaches to Treatment	87
5	What Else Can We Do?	91
	Psychological Methods of Treatment	91
	Psychotherapy	91
	Cognitive Training	93
	Behavior Modification	96
6	How Can the Family Help?	114
	Daily Life with the Hyperactive Child	114
	The Problems Parents Face	114
	Coping with the Problems	119
	How Do Other Parents Cope?	131
7	Special Problems of the Hyperactive Child	135
	Wetting and Soiling	135
	Lying and Stealing	144
	"Nobody Likes Me!"	150
8	How Can We Reach Him to Teach Him?	157
	The Hyperactive Child in School	157
	The School's Role in Diagnosis	157
	Guidelines for Teachers	159
	Underachievement and Learning Disabilities	173
	Home-School Cooperation	181
	Winning the Battle of the Homework	184
Appendix	Behavior Management Programs for Classroom Use	193
	Models of Management	194
	Using the Models Successfully	201
	Discipline and Control	203
	Notes	207
	Index	211