What do you think?
Rate this book
ADHD 101: Parents Edition
ADHD101 Parents Edition is about empowering parents to better understand sensitive topics like medication and rights versus responsibility. Through taking a compassionate non-sugar coating approach with parents to acknowledge their problematic attitudes & behavior regarding this sensitive issue.
Through helping, parents develop a more realistic approach to their child's diagnosis by giving them the tools to acknowledge their unhelpful thoughts, actions, and problematic beliefs. With easy-to-learn psychological techniques designed to empower parents through empathy and critical thinking.
So parents can confidently answer the following question about their child's well-being. What do I do next after my child's diagnosed with ADHD? Empowering parents to start healthy conversations with themselves and their children to answer tough questions like in the following example I've written below.
What are your (good and bad) opinions on ADHD and ADHD medications?
Where do you get your information on ADHD, and why is this an important step?
How do you react to medical professionals' recommendations, and how do your distortions and self-talk play into your answer?
What is the difference between constructive and destructive criticism?
How can parents balance parental rights without infringing on their child's rights?
Through helping, parents develop a more realistic approach to their child's diagnosis by giving them the tools to acknowledge their unhelpful thoughts, actions, and problematic beliefs. With easy-to-learn psychological techniques designed to empower parents through empathy and critical thinking.
So parents can confidently answer the following question about their child's well-being. What do I do next after my child's diagnosed with ADHD? Empowering parents to start healthy conversations with themselves and their children to answer tough questions like in the following example I've written below.
What are your (good and bad) opinions on ADHD and ADHD medications?
Where do you get your information on ADHD, and why is this an important step?
How do you react to medical professionals' recommendations, and how do your distortions and self-talk play into your answer?
What is the difference between constructive and destructive criticism?
How can parents balance parental rights without infringing on their child's rights?
167 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 5, 2021
7 people are currently reading
5 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
April 14, 2021
ADHD 101: Parents Edition by Sandy Pace of Mental Health 101 is a guide to help parents effectively support their child with ADHD. It’s written from his perspective as a peer support worker, psychology major, person with ADHD, and child of parents who followed the what-not-to-do handbook when it came to handling the disorder.
The book repeatedly emphasizes the importance of getting health information and guidance from credible sources rather than from online sources with no credentials to back up what they’re saying. It covers some common misconceptions about ADHD and medications, and addresses concerns parents might have about health care providers. Medications are presented as an important part of ADHD treatment, but by no means the only part.
Throughout the book, parents are challenged to examine their own beliefs and biases, and how that might be affecting the way they approach their child’s conditions. Elements of cognitive behavioural therapy, including cognitive distortions, are incorporated.
There’s a chapter devoted to building your child up and empowering them rather than tearing them down. Sandy shares the consequences of being repeatedly knocked down by parents who refused to acknowledge his condition, and encourages readers to avoid heading down that path.
Points in the book are often laid out by number, so it’s easy to follow. It concludes with a set of questions to reflect on what’s been covered.
Sandy’s passion for the topic and personal connection is clear throughout the book. He doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to problematic attitudes, and “Karen” makes a few appearances. Hopefully this book will inspire readers to take a supportive and balanced approach to give their young ADHDer the best start possible.
The book repeatedly emphasizes the importance of getting health information and guidance from credible sources rather than from online sources with no credentials to back up what they’re saying. It covers some common misconceptions about ADHD and medications, and addresses concerns parents might have about health care providers. Medications are presented as an important part of ADHD treatment, but by no means the only part.
Throughout the book, parents are challenged to examine their own beliefs and biases, and how that might be affecting the way they approach their child’s conditions. Elements of cognitive behavioural therapy, including cognitive distortions, are incorporated.
There’s a chapter devoted to building your child up and empowering them rather than tearing them down. Sandy shares the consequences of being repeatedly knocked down by parents who refused to acknowledge his condition, and encourages readers to avoid heading down that path.
Points in the book are often laid out by number, so it’s easy to follow. It concludes with a set of questions to reflect on what’s been covered.
Sandy’s passion for the topic and personal connection is clear throughout the book. He doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to problematic attitudes, and “Karen” makes a few appearances. Hopefully this book will inspire readers to take a supportive and balanced approach to give their young ADHDer the best start possible.
Displaying 1 of 1 review