ADHD: Helping Parents Help Their Children

ISBN-13: 9780765702739 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 247 str.

Edward H. Jacobs

Opis

Just as special diagnostic and clinical skills are needed by therapists working with children and families coping with ADHD, very special skills are needed to parent the ADHD child. In this practical guide, Dr Jacobs demonstrates how he helps parents work effectively as a team to acquire skills that will help their children. Addressing both necessity and the complexity of developing a therapeutic relationship with the child's parents, he guides clinicians through the process of offering information about the nature of ADHD, coping with the parents' emotional reactions, identifying differences in mothering and fathering, and engaging the parents in an examination of their parenting skills and the effectiveness of their disciplinary methods. This therapeutic approach enables parents to use ordinary family interactions to teach their ADHD child many specific skills, such as communication, organization, self-soothing, regulation of aggression, and appropriate social behaviour.