Equip Yourself with Practical Strategies to Help Your Child Manage ADHD from Preschool to Adulthood
Written by an expert with over 15 years of experience in treating adult ADHD and ADHD in children, Focused offers essential information to empower parents and provide immediate assistance. Learn to uncover your child’s considerable strengths and work around their obstacles with concrete, actionable strategies that improve executive functioning, support emotional development, and promote positive behavior.
• A concise overview of attention deficit disorder in children and their different treatment options • Over 40 parenting strategies targeting common ADHD challenges like hyperactivity and inattention • Modification tips for adapting strategies to your child’s unique needs • Helpful tools like a quiz and worksheets to supplement your ADHD treatment plan • Valuable parenting principles and advice for becoming your child’s best advocate
About the Author: Blythe Grossberg, Psy.D, is the author of Making ADD Work and a number of other books about ADHD, learning disabilities, and Asperger’s. A learning specialist in New York City, she helps children and adults with improve their performance in school and at work.
If you are new to ADHD and have not read too much on the subject, are in the USA, and are looking for a good overview and solid resources, then this is a good place to start. It is not overwhelmingly long, and is structured well. I skipped vast swathes of it, because they were not relevant.
I appreciated the author's positive tone and encouragement.
It took me one morning to read this book. It's not particularly innovative, especially if you have read other books on ADHD. It's a good book for a first read if you have questions about ADHD, or are new to learning ways in which to deal with a child with ADHD
Great basic book on ADHD and simple strategies to get started. If you've already read a lot on this topic skip this one, but it does have some good checklists and further reading.
If your child or family member has been recently diagnosed with ADHD or ADD, I definitely recommend Focused by Blythe Grossberg, PSY.D. With over 15 years experience in the field she uses her passion to guide parents and arm them with the tools to help their children be successful in life. Focused uses their unique way of thinking and strengths to lessen presentations and allow them to reach full potential. This book is filled with so much useful and genuine information from basic symptoms to discussing cognitive behavioral therapy as well as individualized sections by age. I can definitely see this as a helpful and empowering read for someone who has just received the diagnosis and is now wondering where to go from here. I received this in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Very helpful; full of a lot of really practical, immediately applicable advice in plain language! Helped take away some of the stigma and fear I was feeling about a possible diagnosis for my son.