ADHD Helping Parents Help Their Children

In this practical and informative book, Dr. Edward H. Jacobs demonstrates how he helps parents work effectively to acquire skills that help their children. Clinicians will find concrete exercises, forms, and techniques that deal with such issues as the use of medication, the consequences of divorce, and the child with ADHD in the school system.

Edward H. Jacobs, Ph.D., is a psychologist practicing in Londonderry, New Hampshire

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: How to Use This Guidebook

xi

The Therapeutic Relationship

1

(20)

What Is ADHD?: Explaining It to Parents

21

(8)

Could MY Child Have ADHD?

29

(6)

The Assessment Process

35

(12)

Identifying the Child's Problem Areas and Setting Goals

47

(14)

Discipline and Authority

61

(22)

Teaching Skills to ADHD Children

83

(66)

Working as a Parenting Team

149

(20)

Cooperative Parenting after Separation or Divorce

169

(10)

To Medicate or Not to Medicate

179

(6)

Is My Child Getting the Help He or She Needs?

185

(6)

Parents Ask: Can I Be a Better Parent?

191

(20)

Parents Ask: Could I Have ADHD?

211

(6)

The Parenting Scorecard

217

(4)

Coming to Terms with the Parents' Own Parents

221

(14)

Final Thoughts

235

(6)

References

241

(2)

Index

243

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ADHD Helping Parents Help Their Children

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