Finding Your Focus: Practical Strategies for the Everyday Challenges Facing Adults with ADD

by Judith Greenbaum, Geraldine Markel

“Filled with tools, strategies, and checklists and written with a fine understanding of the problems adults with ADD face daily. This book is a gift to all who read it.” ―Edward Hollowell, M.D., bestselling author of Driven to Distraction Written by two expert ADD coaches with more than 30 years experience, this practical handbook offers adults with ADD practical techniques for coping with common everyday challenges. These simple proven strategies can help you focus attention, organize your thoughts, and manage time―so you can avoid missing appointments and deadlines, handle social situations, and improve memory skills. A safe alternative to prescription medications, it’s a complete home program that anyone can do.

Genres: Adhd, Psychology, Brain, Nonfiction

187 pages, Paperback

First published September 6, 2005

About the author

Judith Greenbaum, PhD, is the mother of an adult daughter with moderate/severe and mild mental retardation. She currently consults with school districts and families on the development of appropriate educational environments for children with disabilities. She has worked with children and adults with disabilities for 35 years, and has spent much of her educational and professional career as an advocate for people with disabilities and their families.
She has written numerous articles and presented many workshops and seminars for families, educators, social service workers, and mental health professionals on how to access community services, develop effective programs and work with other educational and social services professionals to best care for and support developmentally disabled people. She earned her PhD in Special Education at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

[A.C. Bauch · Rating 4 out of 5]

some might find a lot of the info in this book pedantic, but for people like me, who thrive on simple lists and steps to follow to accomplish certain tasks that others find easy to do (e.g., paying bills on time or making sure there's actually food in the house and clean clothes to wear), i know that this book will prove helpful. i also appreciated that this book is more of a how-to than a how-come. at this point in reading my way through my ever-growing adult add library, i am saturated with info re: adult add & need the application. so a practical how-to is just what i need right now. although once i actually try to apply the strategies the authors suggest, i might discover that their plans don't work as well. but that's probably just the cynic in me talking. :0)

[Colleen Wainwright · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've never been diagnosed as having ADD or ADHD, but I struggle mightily with focus. There were some good techniques in the book for improving and streamlining focus, but ironically (or perhaps not), I found that the style of writing itself—which seemed to extra-simple and straightforward on purpose—made focusing more difficult. I got ants in my pants, what can I say?

[Mscharlee · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did not really provide much helping in organizing interal thoughts, just physical space.

[Ckrippner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent practical strategies that can be put into use RIGHT AWAY!

[chubs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Medium helpful

[Flat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Medium helpful

[Con Robinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very well put together book. It has concise info and little questionnaires to help you figure things out.

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful tips. I wouldn't suggest buying it until you've finished the ADD books you already have, though.