ADHD and Teens- A Parent's Guide to Making It Through the Tough Years

ISBN# 0-87833-899-3
Publication Date: 1995
Paperback, 199pp

Summary

ADHD and Teens is a manual of practical advice to help parents cope with the problems that can arise during these years. A crash course is offered on parenting styles that really work with teens with ADHD and how these styles allow the teen to safely move from dependence to independence.

Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Pay Attention: Hyperactivity is Not Just for Youngsters
2. Medical Management of ADHD in Adolescents
3. ADHD in the Teens Years
4. Your Teen’s Evolving Identity
5. Guiding Teen’s Behavior
6. Positive Discipline
7. Developing Social Skills
8. Comrorbidity: The Many Faces of ADHD
9. Family Dynamics
10. School and the Student
11. Sexuality and Dating
12. The Suicidal Teen
13. Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder
14. Breaking the Cycle