Taking Charge of ADHD (Fourth Edition)

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Russell A. Barkley compassionately guides you to:

• Understand why kids with ADHD act the way they do.
• Get an accurate diagnosis.
• Work with school and health care professionals to find needed support.
• Implement a proven eight-step behavior management plan.
• Build your child’s academic and social skills.
• Restore harmony at home.

New to the fourth edition are a chapter on health risks associated with ADHD, the latest information on the causes of the disorder, current facts on medications, a new discussion of sibling issues, advice for parents who might have ADHD themselves, downloadable practical tools, and much more.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Guiding Philosophy for Parents of Children with ADHD

I. Understanding ADHD

1. What Is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder?
2. “What’s Really Wrong with My Child?”: Poor Self-Regulation
3. What Causes ADHD?
4. What Does Not Cause ADHD?
5. What to Expect: The Developmental Nature of the Disorder
6. The Family Context of a Child with ADHD

II. Taking Charge: How to Be a Successful Executive Parent

7. Deciding to Have Your Child Evaluated for ADHD
8. Preparing for the Evaluation
9. Coping with the Diagnosis of ADHD
10. Just for Parents: How to Take Care of Yourself

III. Managing Life with ADHD: How to Cope at Home and at School

11. Eight Steps to Better Behaviour
12. Taking Charge at Home: The Art of Problem Solving
13. How to Help Your Child with Peer Problems
14. Getting through Adolescence, with Arthur L. Robin, PhD
15. Establishing a Healthy Lifestyle
16. Off to School on the Right Foot: Managing Your Child’s Education, with Linda J. Pfiffner, PhD
17. Enhancing Education at School and at Home: Methods for Success from Kindergarten through Grade 12, with Linda J. Pfiffner, PhD
18. Keeping School Performance in Perspective

IV. Medications for ADHD

19. The Approved Effective Stimulant Medicines
20. Other Medicines

Support Services for Parents
Suggested Reading
References
Index

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Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP, ABCN, before retiring in 2021, served on the faculties of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the Medical University of South Carolina, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Barkley has worked with children, adolescents, and families since the 1970s and is the author of numerous bestselling books for both professionals and the public, including Taking Charge of ADHD and Your Defiant Child.

He has also published six assessment scales and more than 300 scientific articles and book chapters on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, executive functioning, and childhood defiance.