The Gift Of ADHD: How To Transform Your Child's Problems Into Strengths

Reviews new ADHD research and explains how parents can treat the disorder as a gift rather than a hindrance, including channeling ADHD-related traits into productive outlets and coping exercises for children and parents.

Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Walnut Creek, CA. She is author of The Gift of ADHD, the forthcoming Gift of Depression (New Harbinger, 2006), and more than twenty-five scholarly articles. Her work has been featured in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Publisher's Weekly as well as newspapers across the country and local and national radio and television. She specializes in the treatment of ADHD and depression and the psychology of pregnancy and motherhood; she speaks regularly on her areas of expertise. Honos-Webb completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at University of California, San Francisco, and was, until recently, an assistant professor teaching graduate students. She offers telephone therapy to residents anywhere in California. For more information, please visit her Web site visionarysoul.com.