Answers to Distraction

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Pantheon Books, 1994 - Education - 334 pages
In Answers to Distraction, Drs. Hallowell and Ratey respond to the questions their enormous and expanding audience has most often asked them about ADD.The result is a "user's guide" to ADD presented in a question-and-answer format ideal for even the most distractable reader. Each chapter covers a specific element of ADD, enabling readers to find quickly the aspect that most concerns them, such as ADD in women, ADD and aggression, or ADD and work. The authors provide advice for teachers on recognizing ADD and helping students cope with it and, in a special section, give easy-to-understand explanations for children and adolescents who have ADD. Accessible, concise, and leavened with humor, Answers to Distraction is an indispensable volume for anyone interested in, or affected by, Attention Deficit Disorder.

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You Mean Theres Actually a Name for It?
3
To Be Here and There and Everywhere
18
Making or Breaking the Spirit of the Child
72
Copyright

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Edward M. Hallowell, a child and adult psychiatrist as well as an author and lecturer, is a graduate of Harvard College, Tulane Medical School, and a Harvard Residency Program in Adult and Child Psychiatry. In addition to his private psychiatry practice in Cambridge, Mass., and his teaching career at Harvard Medical School, Hallowell is the founder and director of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health. The Center specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cognitive and emotional problems in both children and adults. As an author, Hallowell has written two best-selling books on Attention Deficit Disorder: Driven to Distraction and Answers to Distraction. He has also written the comprehensive books When You Worry About The Child You Love and Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely. Hallowell, who is married and has three children, lives in Massachusetts

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