ADD and ADHD: Attention Deficit Disorder

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition that becomes apparent in some children in the preschool and early school years. It is hard for these children to control their behavior and/or pay attention.

Medication Is Not the Long-term Answer
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
Americans are living longer and in better health than ever before. So why is ADD on the rise? I suspect that one day we will find some environmental pollutant responsible for most of the symptoms.

Treatment for ADD, Does Your Child Have ADD?
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
Parents of children with ADD can become exasperated very early on because it is often difficult to determine if a child truly has attention deficit disorder. According to a widely accepted checklist, ADD should be considered if the child often fails

The Diagnosis
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
The scenarios of discovery don't vary greatly from one family to the next. Often a teacher sounds the first alarm by alerting parents to the fact that a child is disruptive in class.

Taking a Step on the Healing Path
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
In all truth, ADD cannot be treated in seven minutes or in seven days, and probably cannot be treated in a doctor's office. It has to be approached in the home, where there is a higher calling than just getting a child to be quiet and conform to the rules

Sharing the Journey
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
I did not begin to write this book last year or the year before that. I started this book when I was born, and I have edited it ever since. My birth was an ordeal for both my mother and me. She was given too much pain medication, by accident.

Foreword by Dr. Phil McGraw
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a major challenge for many families in this century. The needs and unresolved challenges of children with ADD are affecting virtually every school in this nation, and a high number of adult issues in the workplace have

Synopsis of Treatment of ADD, Part 4
Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.
People with ADD do look out windows. They do not stay on track. They stray. But they also see new things or find new ways to see old things. They are not just the tuned-out of this world; they are also tuned in, often to the fresh and the new.

Synopsis of Treatment of ADD, Part 3
Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.
Problems in the development of language can occur at a number of levels and in a number of ways. One can have difficulty with input or with output. Input problems, or what are called receptive language problems, can affect both what you take in

Synopsis of Treatment of ADD, Part 2
Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.
In the first phase of her treatment we focused on developing an understanding of ADD. As Maria learned about the syndrome, she was able to rethink many of her long-held views about herself: that she had 'a screw loose,' that she was not competent

Synopsis of Treatment of ADD
Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.
1. Diagnosis: The first step in treatment is making the diagnosis. Often this carries with it considerable relief as the individual feels, 'At last there's a name for it!' The therapy begins with the diagnosis. 2. Education

What Is Attention Deficit Disorder?
Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.
Once you catch on to what this syndrome is all about, you'll see it everywhere. People you used to think of as disorganized or manic or hyper or creative but unpredictable, people who you know could do more if they could just 'get it together,'

Toward a Definition of ADD
Answers to Distraction
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.
Q: Can you tell me in brief what I need to know about ADD? A: I can try. ADD is a neurological syndrome that is usually genetically transmitted. It is characterized by distractibility, impulsivity, and restlessness.

The Skinny On ADD
Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder
by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., John J. Ratey, M.D.
Most people who have ADD don't read books all the way through. It's not because they don't want to; it's because reading entire books is very difficult-sort of like singing an entire song in just one breath.

Ritalin Ascendant: A Doctor's Dilemma
Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill
by Lawrence H. Diller, M.D.
The sharp rise in ADD diagnosis is directly tied to another startling statistic-a 700 percent increase in the amount of Ritalin produced in the United States during the same time period. An increase of this magnitude in the use of a single medication

Home Management Recommendations
by Joseph M. Carver, Ph.D.
Be firm. Establish clear ground rules when the child is young and keep these rules (with whatever needed amendments) on into adolescence. As the child improves in judgment, give him more leeway. Do not flood the child with petty time-consuming decisions

Treatment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
by Joseph M. Carver, Ph.D.
Treatment of ADHD often involves a multidisciplinary approach and includes physicians, therapists, educators, and families. Children and adults with mild ADHD may require minimal professional intervention while severe ADHD may require multiple medications

When are ADHD Children Identified
by Joseph M. Carver, Ph.D.
ADHD Children are often diagnosed as being hyperactive type or inattentive type-or the combined version. There is difference in identification with these two types. The obviously hyperactive child is often identified within the first week of kindergarten

ADHD Behavioral Patterns
by Joseph M. Carver, Ph.D.
The following patterns have been found in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) children and adults. The patterns are identified through a combination of professional research and twenty-seven years of clinical experience with ADHD.

Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
by Joseph M. Carver, Ph.D.
The essential features of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (1994), is the presence of developmentally inappropriate degrees of inattention, impulsive