No More Adhd: 10 Steps to Help Improve Your Child's Attention and Behavior Without Drugs!

by Mary Ann Block

In her new book, No More ADHD, 10 Steps To Help Improve Your Child`s Attention and Behavior WITHOUT Drugs, Dr. Mary Ann Block, top-selling author of the groundbreaking book, No More Ritalin, reveals the truth about the ADHD diagnosis and helps parents, step by step identify and improve their child`s true health and learning problems. Dr. Block takes the reader on a shocking journey behind the scenes of the medical profession to expose the origin of the ADHD label and explains how children’s attention and behavior symptoms can be the result of real and explainable health and learning problems. While others are debating the pros and cons of the psychiatric drugging of children, Dr. Block has spent her medical career working in the trenches, helping to get children off these drugs and to keep them off. A mother who knows all too well how the medical system can fail a child, Dr. Block was compelled to go to medical school at the age of 39 to save her daughter after doctors made her child seriously ill with a wrong diagnosis and inappropriate use of drugs. Today she brings to her patients the understanding and knowledge of a physician and the sensitivity and respect of a parent. What Dr. Block learned as a mother and a physician is in this book and may help bring hope and comfort to other parents. With the facts in hand and an understanding of the issues, this book may help to guide parents, step by step, to identify and improve their child’s health and learning problems and to a future with No More ADHD.

Genres: Adhd

178 pages, Paperback

First published May 11, 2001

Reviews

[Beth A. · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book drove me nuts.

I'm not sure where I learned this, probably in one of the communication classes I took in college, but when you want to persuade someone of something; the best way to do that is to find a common ground, something you can both agree on, and from there gradually build your case.

Block needs to take that class.

She used blanket statements that either seemed ridiculous or made me feel defensive. It was biased and inflammatory, and supported by case stories rather than scientific information.

I felt like she exaggerated Ritalin's (and other prescription drugs') dangerousness, doctor's eagerness to prescribe drugs, and the evil goal of teachers to get all of their problem children on Ritalin.

She disregarded the real impact ADD symptoms can have on a child's well being.

I understand that she has strong beliefs and that she is trying to help her readers.

I picked up this book looking for specific behavioral strategies to help my daydreamer stay on task at school and at home. It had one short chapter devoted to "Learning", but no specific instructions that were relevant to me. She referred her readers to another book she wrote, but I'm going to look elsewhere.

This book was too far from my beliefs, and not well enough explained or substantiated.

[Cole · Rating 1 out of 5]

I saw this book in a waiting room and I can't tell you how uncomfortable this made me feel as somebody with ADHD. The author thinks ADHD is a myth and that millions are mislabeled with ADHD. My developmental disorder is a real thing that I was born with. Although steps can probably be taken to improve my condition it's going to include medication (possibly, not everyone needs it), therapy, psychologists, life coaches etc. Not just taking my vitamins

[Reading2Nite · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book has good suggestions and I am certain that ADHD gets misdiagnosed all of the time, however, the title puts out false information that it does not exist. People who struggle with it know how hard it is to have teachers, family, and the work-place misunderstand you. This book leads to more misinformation by virtue of the title.

[April · Rating 1 out of 5]

While I can firmly recommend Dr. Block's book, 'No More Amoxicillin', I cannot recommend this one. It is simply a very long rant against the belief that ADHD is actually a real diagnosis.