Adhd Handbook for Families: A Guide to Communicating With Professionals

This empowering book gives families practical, concrete know-how. The ADHD Handbook is packed with proven, real-life strategies and techniques that can be put to use immediately, including how to develop behavior modification plans by accurately observing, recording, and reporting behavior; how to decide if and when to use medication; how to work with clinical and education professionals and other members of the family for effective interventions. The author, Paul Weingartner, brings a unique perspective to this book. He is an experienced clinician who has worked for years with children who have ADHD--and he has ADHD himself. He relates a personal account of how he applied his own strategies to change the way he interacted with family members and coworkers. The ADHD Handbook is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to understand what ADHD is, what it feels like, and how to help children live a full life.

I love this book. It is very current, highly readable, richly informative, and tremendously helpful. But most of all, I love it because it is clearly written from the heart. Paul Weingartner gives us an insider's view of ADHD that makes the facts and recommendations far more convincing than any clinical scientist could achieve. Kudos to Paul for his courage for having written this book. -- Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology University of Massachusetts Medical School