October Books of the Month
This month we are featuring books for women with ADHD.
Understanding Women with AD/HD Edited by Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. and Patricia Quinn, M.D.
This landmark book brings together a broad field of experts to create a much-needed and long overdue book on the issues unique to women with ADHD. As a companion to their earlier book, Understanding Girls with ADHD, Nadeau and Quinn, in this volume, gather the voics of many others to expand and extend the dialogue about gender issues, diagnostic criteria more appropriate for women, and the complex co-existing conditions that must be addressed, including eating disorders, fibromyalgia, sleep disorders, addictions, post-traumatic stress, bi-polar and mood swings. Understanding Women with ADHD addresses issues for women at each life stage including young women, the college experience, single women, married women, motherhood, sexuality, workplace issues, and struggles with organization and life management. Whether you are a woman who suspects that she has ADHD or a professional that wants to better diagnose and treat women with ADHD, this book is designed with you in mind. Contributors include well-known professionals in the field and women who have personally experienced ADHD. In this unique blend of the professional and personal, the reader will come away with a broad ranging, in-depth understanding of what it means to be a woman with ADHD and how to help women with ADHD face their unique challenges.
Women with Attention Deficit Disorder
Sari Solden MS, MFCC
In this pioneering exploration of ADD, Sari Solden combines real-life histories and treatment experiences with the latest clinical research to create a new screening checklist specifically for women. She highlights the special challenges women with ADD face, describes what to look for and what to look out for in treatment and counseling, and outlines empowering steps that women living with ADD may use to change their lives. Solden poignantly depicts the shame many women experience as they find themselves unable to live up to expectations ingrained early in life. Through exercises, self-talk, and client stories, she helps women dismantle their self-images as "slobs" or "space cadets" and enjoy success on their own terms.
November Books of the Month
This month we are featuring books about ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorders.
The ADHD Autism Connection by, Diane M. Kennedy
At last, long-awaited answers to the questions you’ve been asking. Help for frustrated ADHD patients and their families. (As well as those with autism, PDD, Asperger’s syndrome, and other related conditions.) Attention deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is one of the most rapidly growing diagnoses of our generation. Often the diagnosis fails to provide real help, leaving patients, doctors, and families at a loss to know what to do next. But for the first time ever, new insights into the overwhelming number of similarities between Autism and ADHD are giving those with ADHD genuine hope. For years, the label of Autism has carried a negative connotation. Parents were afraid to admit the diagnosis and banished the term from discussion. Finally, The ADHD-Autism Connection gives parents, educators, and doctors a reason to embrace autism with a renewed sense of hope and understanding. This book will show how these understandings can minimize the frustration, misdiagnoses, and misunderstandings ADHD sufferers and their families face.
The Social Skills Picture Book by, Jed Baker, Ph.D.
Seeing is learning. Dr. Jed Baker embraces this philosophy in this dynamic teaching tool that engages the attention and motivation of students who need a little extra help learning appropriate social skills by using pictures of children mastering skills such as communication, play, emotion, and empathy.
I Need Help with School! A Guide for Parents of Children with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
Rebecca A. Moyes
If you are a parent of a child with autism or Asperger’s syndrome with questions about how to design an appropriate educational program for your child, this is the book for you! Included topics are: developing social skills, addressing challenging behaviors, encouraging self-esteem, dealing with teasing and bullying, IEP’s, etc. Covers everything in a “parent friendly” language.
December Books of the Month
This month we are featuring a book about ADHD and relationships.
A.D.D. & Romance by, Jonathan Scott Halverstadt, M.S.
Romantic relationships are hard enough, but sustaining a stimulating and satisfying romantic relationship can be even more challenging if one partner has Attention Deficit Disorder. In A.D.D and Romance, Johnathan Scott Halverstadt discusses the neurobiological origins of A.D.D. and stresses that frustrating A.D.D. behaviors, which are neither conscious nor intentional, can be greatly reduced with the help of medication and therapy. Using real-life examples from years of case studies, Halverstadt explores common problems couples encounter in their A.D.D. relationships, including diagnosis of a partner’s A.D.D. techniques for coping with A.D.D. while nurturing a relationship, recognition of unrealistic romantic expectations, and identification of a negative relationship.