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Descanso Medical Center
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Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
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Author: Sue Spence
Book Description: All kids get scared, but some fears can escalate into paranoias with long-term ramifications. This step-by-step guide tackles the why, how, and what now of anxiety disorders. Written in everyday language, it describes in detail strategies and techniques parents can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for managing a child's worry while building confidence and self-control.
Author: Katharina Manassis
Barron's Educational Series (July 1, 1996)
Author: John S. Dacey
Jossey-Bass, (December 17, 2001)
by Thomas W. Phelan
Parentmagic, Inc.; 3rd edition (October, 2003)
Author: Chris A. Zeigler Dendy
Cherish Children, 2003 - Recommended for Teens
by Mel Levine
Simon & Schuster (December 31, 2002)
Amazon.com: Recognizing each child's intellectual, emotional, and physical strengths--and teaching directly to these strengths--is key to sculpting "a mind at a time," according to Dr. Mel Levine. While this flashing yellow light will not surprise many skilled educators, limited resources often prevent them from shifting their instructional gears. But to teachers and parents whose children face daily humiliation at school, the author bellows, "Try harder!" A professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Levine eloquently substantiates his claim that developmental growth deserves the same monitoring as a child's physical growth.
Tales of creative, clumsy, impulsive, nerdy, intuitive, loud-mouthed, and painfully shy kids help Levine define eight specific mind systems (attention, memory, language, spatial ordering, sequential ordering, motor, higher thinking, and social thinking). Levine also incorporates scientific research to show readers how the eight neurodevelopmental systems evolve, interact, and contribute to a child's success in school. Detailed steps describe how mental processes (like problem solving) work for capable kids, and how they can be finessed to serve those who struggle. Clear, practical suggestions for fostering self-monitoring skills and building self-esteem add the most important elements to this essential--yet challenging--program for "raisin' brain." --Liane Thomas
Magazine designed to serve as a resource for people with ADD or AD/HD or people who have children with ADD or AD/HD. It is editorial in it approach, leery of treatments that have not been fully tested, and up-to-date on recent research and developments in the field.
by Patricia O., Md. Quinn (Editor)
Book Description: Armed with the wisdom of both specialists and those who have "been there" themselves, readers with ADD can approach the prospect of college with confidence. This concise handbook is packed with practical information and advice for the smoothest possible transition to college life. Substantially expanded and revised, with chapters written by physicians, psychologists, and educators with expertise in ADD, this new edition of ADD and the College Student provides a wealth of information including:
- Getting in to the college of your choice
- Locating and making full use of resources on campus
- Personal commentaries from college students with ADD
- Securing learning accommodations that highlight your abilities
- Your legal rights as a student with ADD
- Working with an ADD coach
- Life-style habits for your success
by Michael I. Reiff, Sherill Tippins, and Anthony Alex LeTourneau
American Academy of Pediatrics (Paperback - April 1, 2004)
This comprehensive guide to ADHD offers parents balanced, reassuring, and authoritative information to help them understand and manage this challenging and often misunderstood condition. Based on the American Academy of Pediatrics' own clinical practice guidelines for ADHD and written in clear, accessible language, this book answers the common questions: How is ADHD diagnosed? What are today's best treatment options? and Will my child outgrow ADHD? Accurate, up-to-date findings on evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions, and unproven treatments are provided. Also addressed are behaviors associated with the teenage years and what schools can do to support children with the condition. ADHD management strategies that balance the roles of behavior therapy, medications, and parenting techniques are suggested.
by Thomas W. Phelan Ph.D.
Parentmagic, Inc.; 2nd edition (October 1, 2000)
Book Description: In honest and straightforward language, this comprehensive guide describes how to recognize the symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), how to best treat it, and how to handle its effects in everyday situations. Parents, teachers, physicians, and mental health professionals benefit from learning the latest on medication treatment for the disorder that affects approximately 20 million children and adults in the United States. This guide helps ADD individuals and their friends and families to understand ADD and to better serve the needs of ADD children and adults in school, workplace, and social situations.
by Melvin D. Levine, Melvine Levine
Educators Pub Service
Answers to Distraction (Paperback)
by Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey "A:
Bantam; Bantam Tra edition (March 1, 1996)
In Driven to Distraction, Drs. Hallowell and Ratey revealed why millions of adults and children are chronic underachievers, caught up in persistent problems in school, at work, and at home. The cause is not lack of self-discipline, but, rather, an inborn neurological condition, Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD.
Answers To Distraction provides practical solutions to the dilemmas of ADD. This "user's guide" to ADD is presented in question-and-answer format ideal for even the most distractible reader. Each chapter covers a specific aspect of ADD, such as ADD in women, ADD and aggression, ADD and addiction, or ADD and work. The authors provide advice for teachers on recognizing ADD and helping students to cope, plus extraordinary insights into the relationship difficulties caused by ADD.
by Edna D. Copeland, Valerie L. Love
Specialty Press (FL); Revised edition (January 1, 1995)
Book Description: This is a comprehensive guide for successfully parenting children with ADD and hyperactivity. Written by professionals who are also parents, it is a well-researched reference highlighted with real-life experiences and packed with proven solutions to help families.
by Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
Ballantine Books (January 4, 2005)
Amazon.com: Medication? Maybe. Marry the right person and find the right job? A must if you are an adult suffering from ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). So say psychiatrists Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey, authors of the influential Driven to Distraction, published in 1994. In their new book, Delivered from Distraction, Hallowell and Ratey survey the current medical landscape concerning ADD, combining their own clinical observations with the latest research to paint a much more complex and, in many ways, positive picture of the condition than has generally been presented.
by Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
Touchstone; Reprint edition (March 1995)
Amazon.com: This clear and valuable book dispels a variety of myths about attention deficit disorder (ADD). Since both authors have ADD themselves, and both are successful medical professionals, perhaps there's no surprise that the two myths they attack most persistently are: (a) that ADD is an issue only for children; and (b) that ADD corresponds simply to limited intelligence or limited self-discipline. "The word disorder puts the syndrome entirely in the domain of pathology, where it should not entirely be. Although ADD can generate a host of problems, there are also advantages to having it, advantages that this book will stress, such as high energy, intuitiveness, creativity, and enthusiasm, and they are completely overlooked by the 'disorder' model."
Author: Jeanne M. A. Gehret
Verbal Images Press, Revised edition (March 1996)
ISBN: 1884281117
by Stephen W. Phd Garber
Villard; Reprint edition (January 31, 1995
by Beth Walker
Woodbine House, 2004
Book Description: Attention, girls with AD/HD! Finally there is a book written especially for you-–a for-your-eyes-only look at what it is like to have AD/HD, and great advice on how to cope with it. THE GIRLS’ GUIDE TO AD/HD explores the good stuff, not-so-good stuff, normal stuff, brain stuff, and truthfully, the stuff that isn’t in any other book out there on AD/HD. Really!
Author: Jack Gantos, 2002 (Ages 10 and older)
Author: Kathleen G. Nadeau
Magination Press, 2004 (Ages 9-12)
This book is designed as the perfect learning tool to help parents guide their child as he or she confronts the challenges of ADHD. Learning to Slow Down is unique because it is kid-centered, written from the child's point of view.
Author: Patricia O. Quinn
Magination Press; Revised Edition (July 2001) Ages 9-12
School Strategies for Add Teens (Paperback)
by Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen B. Dixon, Sue Biggs
Publisher: Advantage (December 2000)
Author: Russell A. Barkley
The Guildford Press; Revised edition (September 2000)
by Kathleen G. Nadeau
Advantage Books (December 1, 2000)
Book Description: A ground-breaking book on the needs and issues of girls with attentional problems: why they are often undiagnosed, how they are different from boys, and what their special needs are in school, in their social world and at home. Age-related checklists from pre-school to high school help parents and professionals better identify and help girls with AD/HD.
by Sari Solden
Underwood Books (October 1, 1995)
Book Description: This book addresses the millions of withdrawn little girls and chronically overwhelmed women with ADD who go undiagnosed because they don't fit the stereotypical notion of people with ADD. They are not fast-talking, hyperactive, non-attentive, and they are not male. Though the book focuses on ADD, much of what is said also applies to women with ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
in Babies and Young Children (Paperback)
by Stanley Greenspan, Nancy Breslau Lewis, Stanley I. Greenspan
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Perseus Publishing (October 1, 2000)
Language: English
by Stanley I. Greenspan, Serena Wieder, Robin Simons
Book Description: ...an ideal reference for the parent of a child challenged with autism, ADD, Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, language and speech problems, or other disorders...teaches parents how to stimulate intellectual and emotional growth in the child.
The Challenging Child: Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five "Difficult" Types of Children (Paperback)
by Stanley I. Greenspan, Jacqueline Salmon
Book Description: Most children fall into five basic personality types that stem from inborn physical characteristics: the sensitive child, the self-absorbed child, the defiant child, the inattentive child, and the active/aggressive child. Stanley Greenspan, M.D., is the first to show parents how to match their parenting to the challenges of their particular child. He identifies and vividly describes these five universal temperaments and then, with great empathy, shows parents how each of these children actually experiences the world and how to use daily childrearing to enhance an individual child's strengths and talents.
by Nancy Wiseman
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Broadway (January 10, 2006)
Language: English
to Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by Stanley I. Greenspan, Stuart G. Shanker
Hardcover: 504 pages . Also available in paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press (August 1, 2004)
Language: English
by Stanley I. Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
272 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (November 1, 1994)
Language: English
The Affect-Based Language Curriculum (ABLC), Second Edition (Spiral-bound)
by Stanley I. Greenspan; Diane Lewis
Book Description: The purpose of the Affect-Language Curriculum (ABLC) is to provide families, therapists and teachers a systematic, intensivee program based on both new insights and tradional knowledge of the development of communication and language. The curriculum utilizes affect and engagement with pleasurable back-and-forth reciprocal interactions as the foundation for the development of imitation, pragmatics, and receptive and expressive language.
Accommodating People with Communication and Behavioral Challenges
by Anne M. Donnellan and Martha R. Leary
The authors present movement differences as part of the spectrum of human diversity affecting action, speech, perception, and emotions. Differences can become disturbances, mask competencies and reflect negatively on persons labeled retarded, autistic, or similarly disabled. Accommodations tailored to each person's unique pattern of movement difference and diversity can promote communication, reveal competencies and restore dignity to people who have too often been marginalized by society. Highly recommended.
107 pages. 1995 (If not available through Amazon, it may be available at www.specialneeds.com
by Ross W. Greene
Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st ed edition (October 1, 1998)
by Douglas Riley
Book Description
The perfect book to help you give your oppositional-defiant child the help he or she needs.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing (January 25, 1997)
by Russell A. Barkley, Christine M. Benton
Publisher: The Guilford Press (October 6, 1998)
by Demitri Md Papolos, Janice Papolos
Amazon.com
For any caregiver experiencing life with a bipolar child, Demitri and Janice Papolos's The Bipolar Child will be an indispensable reference guide. The material is presented clearly, with lots of helpful charts and lists to aid in receiving proper diagnosis, treatment, and long-term care. All medical information is relayed with the aim of helping parents to ensure effective treatment for their children and includes journal-tracking formats to help caregivers provide accurate information to personal physicians. Importantly, many pages are devoted to discussions about the emotional upheavals that living with a bipolar child can bring, and how parents and children can cope most effectively. The book is filled with families' stories that do a beautiful job providing comfort and inspiration to others. A detailed chapter on hospitalization covers everything from insurance to types of treatments. The authors provide excellent information regarding improved educational practices, with step-by-step instructions for goal-setting with your child and communicating your child's needs to school personnel.
Publisher: Broadway, Rev & Expanded edition (September 24, 2002)
by Francis Mark Mondimore
Publisher: The John Hopkins University Press; 1st edition (Mary 15, 1999)
Magination Press (an imprint of the American Psychological Association) publishes beautifully written and accessible storybooks, picture books, and workbooks to help children deal with a wide variety of psychological concerns and challenges, from common issues - bullying, shyness, self-esteem - to special circumstances - blended families, grave illnesses, and learning disabilities. Their books are designed to lead children and their caregivers through a didactic process in which these issues are confronted, understood and dealt with in concrete ways. Written by psychologists and experts who work with children on a daily basis, these books provide a form of "bibliotherapy" for kids and the adults in their lives. www.maginationpress.com
by Mildred Newman, Bernard Berkowitz, Jean Owen
Inside Flap Copy: "Sensible advice on how to give up childhood, accept yourself and your own maturity and deal with life on your own two feet."
DALLAS TIMES HERALD: In this unique, bestselling question-and- answer guide to self-love and acceptance, two practicing psychologists (who are also married to one another) reveal the secret of pursuing happiness, by revealing to ourselves what we think we are striving for, and what it is that keeps us from achieving our goals.
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (December 12, 1986)
Tracking Down Hidden Food Allergy
by William G. Crook, M.D
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Professional Books (June 1980)
Language: English
For Boys
by Mary Pipher (Foreword), William Pollack
Publisher: Owl Books; Special forward by Mary Pipher edition (April 1999)
by William Pollack
Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (June 6, 2000)
For Girls:
by Beth Walker
Woodbine House, 2004
Book Description: Attention, girls with AD/HD! Finally there is a book written especially for you-–a for-your-eyes-only look at what it is like to have AD/HD, and great advice on how to cope with it. THE GIRLS’ GUIDE TO AD/HD explores the good stuff, not-so-good stuff, normal stuff, brain stuff, and truthfully, the stuff that isn’t in any other book out there on AD/HD. Really!
by Kathleen G. Nadeau
Advantage Books (December 1, 2000)
Book Description: A ground-breaking book on the needs and issues of girls with attentional problems: why they are often undiagnosed, how they are different from boys, and what their special needs are in school, in their social world and at home. Age-related checklists from pre-school to high school help parents and professionals better identify and help girls with AD/HD.
by Sari Solden
Underwood Books (October 1, 1995)
Book Description: This book addresses the millions of withdrawn little girls and chronically overwhelmed women with ADD who go undiagnosed because they don't fit the stereotypical notion of people with ADD. They are not fast-talking, hyperactive, non-attentive, and they are not male. Though the book focuses on ADD, much of what is said also applies to women with ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
by Timothy E. Wilens
Review: "...demystifies the complex process by which doctors diagnose and treat AD/HD and other common psychiatric and behavioral disorders of childhood, including anxiety, depression, and autism."--Additude
NTSC format (US and Canada only. This VHS will probably NOT be viewable in other countries.
Video Release Date: December 3,1 1997
ASIN: 1886941246
NTSC format (US and Canada only. This VHS will probably NOT be viewable in other countries.
ASIN: 1886941238
by Brandi Roth
Schwab Foundation for Learning, 1998: Practical guide for pros and cons of public and private schools, highlights different types of schools, identifies the best match.
Publisher: Association of Ideas Pub; 1st ed edition (September 1, 1998)
by Mary Watkins, Susan Fisher
Current wisdom holds that adoptive parents should talk with their child about adoption as early as possible. But no guidelines exist to prepare parents for the various ways their children might respond when these conversations take place. In this wise and sympathetic book, a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist, both adoptive mothers, discuss how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted, how it might appear in their play, and what worries they and their parents may have. Accounts by twenty adoptive parents of conversations about adoption with their children, from ages two to ten, graphically convey what the process of sharing about adoption is like.
Publisher: Yale University Press; Reissue edition (February 22, 1995)
ISBN: 0300063172
by Sydney Zentall, Sam Goldstein
Richard D. Lavoie, M.Ed., Executive Director of Riverview School
"The homework battles are fought in thousands of kitchens throughout America every weekday evening. Finally, an effective and pragmatic guidebook has arrived to help parents in this struggle"
by MA, Sarah Jane Schonour, PhD, Thomas W. Phelan, Dan Farrell (Illustrator)
Book Description: Offering advice for teachers eager to develop better discipline in the classroom, this guide provides practical methods for eliminating disruptive behavior, encouraging productive work habits, and communicating with parents. Clear lessons and straightforward language reveal how to measure discipline in a classroom environment, as well as how to handle difficult situations, such as transition times, assemblies, lunchtime, and field trips. A separate chapter for school administrators explains how to support classroom teachers in creating discipline and how to evaluate those teachers.
Parentmagic, Inc. (September 28, 2004.
ISBN: 1889140171
by Harvey C. Parker
Out of Print--Limited Availability
Specialty Press (FL) (February 1, 1992)
ISBN: 0962162922
About the Author: Dr. Parker is co-founder and former Executive Director of CH.A.D.D. He currently serves on the CH.A.D.D. Board of Directors and was inducted by CH.A.D.D. into the ADD Hall of Fame in 1994. He played an instrumental role in encouraging the U.S. Department of Education to clarify the responsibility schools must assume in providing appropriate educational services to students with ADD.
Dr. Parker has authored and co-authored a number of publications on attention deficit disorder including "The ADD HyperactivityWorkbook for Parents, Teachers, and Kids" and "Put Yourself in Their Shoes: Understanding Teenagers with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder." He has appeared on national television shows including 20/20 and The Today Show.
by Linda Pfiffner
Average Customer Review:
Out of Print--Limited Availability
Book Description: What can you do to help students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in your classroom? Filled with the most effective strategies and ideas‹from establishing classroom and homework routines, to peer tutoring and monitoring‹to improve learning and behavior for a range of ADHD children. Includes background, resources, and practical checklists.
Publisher: Scholastic Trade (January 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN: 0590251082
by Sandra F. Rief
Sandra Rief offers myriad real-life case studies, interviews, and student intervention plans for children with ADD/ADHD. In addition, the book contains best teaching practices and countless strategies for enhancing classroom performance for all types of students.
This invaluable resource offers proven suggestions for:
Engaging students' attention and active participation
Keeping students on-task and productive
Preventing and managing behavioral problems in the classroom
Differentiating instruction and addressing students' diverse learning styles
Building a partnership with parents
and much more.
by Marilyn P., Ph.D. Dornbush, Sheryl K. Pruitt
Book Description
Provides information to teachers and parents to aid in the teaching of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette Syndrome or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Publisher: Hope Press; Spiral edition (August 1, 1995)
ISBN: 1878267345
Starring: Thomas Phelan
(Diagnosis and Treatment) (1990) Starring: Thomas Phelan Rating
NTSC format (US and Canada only.
This VHS will probably NOT be viewable in other countries.
Video Release Date: December 3,1 1997
NTSC format (US and Canada only. This VHS will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. ASIN: 1886941238
(2002) Starring: Mel Levine, G. Reid Lyon
As many as one in five families are coping with children who struggle to learn. Many of these children don't fit any clinical diagnosis, but for some reason, they aren't learning. Though these children may be suffering from debilitating learning problems, they are often mistakenly called "lazy" or "stupid" by teachers, classmates, and even by their parents. But learning specialists believe that they now possess a key that will ultimately help struggling students, their parents, and teachers better identify and manage learning problems--each mind works differently and has its own unique strengths and weaknesses. Misunderstood Minds illustrates the emerging view that specific identification and customized management of learning problems is the key to success for the millions of children struggling in school. Misunderstood Minds features leading experts in the field of learning problems, including Mel Levine, M.D., G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D., Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and Richard D. Lavoie, M.A. M.Ed. 90 minutes.
For kids with learning disabilities, the classroom can be an intimidating place. Renowned learning disabilities expert Richard Lavoie explains why.
This program looks at the world through the eyes of a child with learning disabilities by taking you to a unique workshop attended by parents, educators, psychologists, and social workers. There they join in a series of classroom activities that cause frustration, anxiety and tension – emotions all too familiar to the student with a learning disability.
By dramatizing the classroom experience so vividly, Lavoie lets us see what children with learning disabilities experience everyday. Then, at the end of the program, he discusses strategies for working more effectively with children who struggle.
70 minute Video with Discussion Guide: $49.95
Available only from the LDOnline Store (VHS, DVD or PAL).
