Teenagers With Add, ADHD & Executive Function Deficits: A Guide for Parents and Professionals - Softcover

Dendy, Chris A. Zeigler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606132814 ISBN 13: 9781606132814

Publisher: Woodbine House, 2017

Synopsis

A seasoned expert and veteran parent, Chris Zeigler Dendy looks at key areas (academics, dating, driving, socializing, and greater independence) that make adolescence potentially more difficult for kids with ADD, ADHD, or executive function deficits. This new edition is expanded and refreshed with indispensable information on the latest DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, research, education strategies and laws, and technology use. The book also offers a thorough explanation of executive function deficits and their impact on teens' ability to focus, prioritize, and plan. The author shows how to support and advocate for teens using a combination of medications, behavior and academic interventions and accommodations, ADHD education, and exercise. Armed with the book's extensive information and strategies, parents, educators, and therapists can be proactive, working together with teens to build resilience and a hopeful future.

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Dendy is the author of four highly acclaimed books and two videos. Over the last 40 years, she has worked as an educator, school psychologist, and children's mental health professional. She is the mother of three grown children and five grandchildren who also have ADHD.

In popular demand as a speaker, she presents internationally on ADHD, learning disabilities, and executive function deficits. Chris served on the executive committee of the national CHADD Board from 2001-2005. She and her late husband have both been members of CHADD's President Council since its inception. They have also served on ADDA-SR's Advisory Board. She was inducted into CHADD's Hall of Fame (2006), awarded CHADD's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award (2015), and along with her husband, selected as recipient of ADDA-SR's Eisenberg Award (2006).

Review:

The very best thing you can do for your teen with ADHD is to read this book. Chris Dendy combines state-of-the-art information, practical strategies, and the understanding of a parent who has lived through adolescence with an ADHD teen. This incredible resource is brimming with concrete steps you can take to help your teen and yourself. --Ruth Hughes, Ph.D., Former CEO, Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)

While there are certainly other books for parents struggling to raise children with ADHD, none of them focus exclusively on teens with ADHD, none of them are by a parent expert and longtime advocate for children and adults with ADHD, and none of them come with the invaluable personal insights about raising teens with ADHD that this book does. It is a rarity that will richly reward the reader with its science-based information on the disorder, its coverage of the available evidence-based treatments, and especially its sage wisdom and personal advice from a parent of an ADHD teenager who has been in the trenches of family life with ADHD. From that vast experience Chris has extracted unique advice and numerous insights that can benefit other parents trying to raise well-adjusted teens with ADHD. --Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Medical University of South Carolina

This third edition of Chris Dendy s guide for parents of teenagers with ADHD provides a wealth of down-to-earth, practical information about how to recognize, understand, and deal sensibly with ADHD/executive function impairments in teens. Based on real-life experiences, it provides compassionate, useful advice about medications, negotiating with school staff, resolving parent-teen conflicts, and much more. It also includes words of wisdom from 15 teens with ADHD looking back on their struggles and successes after they reach age 30 and beyond. Very worthwhile reading for professionals and parents! --Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D., Director of Brown Clinics for Attention & Related Disorders, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medical School of University of Southern California, and author of Outside the Box

About this edition

• Publisher: Woodbine House
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1606132814
• ISBN 13: 9781606132814
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 359