ADD/ADHD Drug Free: Natural Alternatives and Practical Exercises to Help Your Ch

Description: ADD/ADHD Drug Free: Natural Alternatives and Practical Exercises to Help Your Child Focus by Frank Jacobelli, L.A. Watson Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) are among the most misunderstood problems facing young children today. Drugs like Ritalin and Cylert are traditionally prescribed to treat these disorders, but their use is controversial. ADD/ADHD Drug Free gives frustrated parents a long-awaited natural alternative. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) are among the most misunderstood problems facing young children today. Drugs like Ritalin and Cylert are traditionally prescribed to treat these disorders, but their use is controversial. While many children have been helped by these medications, at best, pills only temporarily improve symptoms. Sometimes they dont work at all, and they can come with disturbing side effects such as weight loss, insomnia, and may even slow growth in younger children. ADD/ADHD Drug Free gives frustrated parents a long-awaited natural alternative. The first book to feature enjoyable, practical activities for children that will help them cope with their disorder by strengthening brain functioning, this life-changing guide shows parents, teachers, and counselors how they can improve learning and behavior effectively and without medication. Timely and thoroughly researched, this guide will help thousands of children become more focused and more successful in school and in life, without jeopardizing their health. Notes Subtitled, Natural Alternatives And Practical Exercises To Help Your Child Focus. With activities for children and guides on how to improve learning and behaviour. Back Cover "These authors bring a world of real-life experience to the greatly important endeav Author Biography Frank Jacobelli is experienced in a variety of clinical settings including inpatient psychiatric, private practice, and community mental health, with both children and adults. Since 1994, Mr. Jacobelli has served as a Clinical Coordinator for Enki Health and Research Systems, Inc. in Northern California. Table of Contents CONTENTS Foreword by Dr. Jay Cartervii 1When Medication Isnt the Answer or Isnt Enough1 2The "Challenging" Child9 3Your Childs Amazing Brain: Boiled-Down Neurology for Nonscientists . . . by Nonscientists25 4Gabriel, Patrick, Denny, Tad, and Jeremy: A Few of Our Kids35 5About Learning Styles59 6Survival Skills 101 for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors69 7Reaching the Challenging Child-and Avoiding the Traps75 8Getting Started89 Appendix ISurvey of the Seven Strengths97 Appendix II"Brain-Exercising" Activities103 Workbook A Logical-Mathematical Activities105 Workbook B Bodily-Kinesthetic Activities119 Workbook C Intrapersonal Activities133 Workbook D Musical-Rhythmic Activities147 Workbook E Visual-Spatial Activities161 Workbook F Interpersonal Activities175 Workbook G Verbal-Linguistic Activities189 Appendix IIIAnswer Guide203 References205 Index210 Review "a terrific guide to help parents learn better, drug-free ways of dealing with their unconcentrated child..." Mamas Musings Long Description Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) are among the most misunderstood problems facing young children today. Drugs like Ritalin and Cylert are traditionally prescribed to treat these disorders, but their use is controversial. While many children have been helped by these medications, at best, pills only temporarily improve symptoms. Sometimes they dont work at all, and they can come with disturbing side effects such as weight loss, insomnia, and may even slow growth in younger children. ADD/ADHD Drug Free gives frustrated parents a long-awaited natural alternative. The first book to feature enjoyable, practical activities for children that will help them cope with their disorder by strengthening brain functioning, this life-changing guide shows parents, teachers, and counselors how they can improve learning and behavior effectively and without medication. Timely and thoroughly researched, this guide will help thousands of children become more focused and more successful in school and in life, without jeopardizing their health. Review Quote "a terrific guide to help parents learn better, drug-free ways of dealing with their unconcentrated child…" Mamas Musings Excerpt from Book CHAPTER 1 When Medication Isnt the Answer or Isnt Enough This book was written to give valuable information to parents, teachers, and counselors. But, first and foremost, it is an activity book written for you, the "helper," to use with kids from ages nine to thirteen. The activities are designed to "exercise" their frontal lobes and reduce behavior problems associated with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and other frontal lobe deficits. ADD/ADHD Drug Free shows you how to impart important skills to kids who need to deal with troubling behavioral and cognitive traits that are most likely biological in nature. Lets get the elephant out of the room right from the get-go, and begin by telling you what were not and what this book is not. We are not scientists, and this is not a scientific book. Thats not to say that we havent studied some of the most recent and most fascinating books and research articles about the brain and how it functions. We have studied those books, particularly the ones about the area of our brain called the frontal lobes and about what problems can occur when this part of our brain isnt working up to its potential (more about the frontal lobes later). In fact, you can find references to these works throughout the text, and the titles of these books and articles in the references at the back of this book. These works contain amazing cutting-edge stuff written by people such as Elkhonon Goldberg, Joseph LeDoux, Bruce Perry, Daniel Amen, and Russell Barkley. Now, these folks are scientists! Their books make for fascinating reading for those interested in the science, and we highly recommend them. But were not experts on the brain or, for that matter, on the neurobiology of ADHD (well compare and contrast the types of ADHD in a later chapter). To limit redundancy for now, please note that when we write ADHD, we are referring to all types, whether the problem is primarily inattention, hyperactivity, or both. As such, we have no double-blind studies with which to convince you of our ideas, but we make no apologies. Science, after all, is very concrete and therefore can sometimes be limiting. If youre looking for "evidenced-based" books on treating the symptoms of ADHD, youre likely to find some, but they will probably be difficult to read and understand. And its very unlikely that you will find any activity book at all. A practical, enjoyable, hands-on, and effective workbook for kids is long overdue. We are pleased to deliver such a book to you here. Having gotten that out of the way, we want you to know were very excited to have this chance to tell you whats worked for the kids we have met--and why. But first, let us tell you what we are and a bit more about the book. We are a Mental Health Clinician (Frank) and a Special Educator (Lynn Ann) with more than 40 years combined experience on the front lines in classrooms and counseling offices, providing direct services to kids with frontal lobe problems. Individually, and together, we have treated and taught hundreds of kids whove been pinned with a variety of unflattering labels, such as lazy, angry, crazy, difficult, uncooperative, "bouncing off the walls," or just plain "slow." Over the course of treating all those kids for all those years, we began to notice a few things, and we began to try a few new ideas to address those things we noticed. And what happened was amazing. This book is about sharing our ideas with you: the parents, counselors, and teachers of kids with ADHD and other frontal lobe problems. But lets back up for a minute. Weve known for a long time that kids dont all learn the same way. The funny thing is, despite the truth of it, we (meaning most all well-meaning adults) insist on teaching kids in the same way. We insist on talking at them and putting things in front of them to read. This method of teaching may have some real benefit for kids who are good at processing language, but what about the kids who arent? These are often the kids who wont pay attention, dont follow our rules, may be "bouncing off the walls," or just plain dont get it! What about these kids with less than perfect frontal lobe function? Well, we can tell you that these kids most definitely do not learn best through language (the learning style referred to as verbal-linguistic) (Armstrong, 1993). When it comes to "teaching" kids about behaving, dealing with anger, managing emotions (however we want to refer to it), we mostly tell them how to behave, what not to do, and, our personal least-favorite, what to feel. Well, one of the first things to dawn on Frank (and were going back more years than he wishes to count) was that some of the kids he saw in counseling made progress at a snails pace, while others seemed to blossom before his eyes. Most, particularly those with trouble learning in school, getting along, managing their anger, and completing tasks, didnt seem to take away much from the counseling session. Frank would sometimes watch the child leave his office, feeling a little discouraged in his work. Thank goodness for those others, the ones who were "smart" enough to listen attentively to his eloquence and even feed something back to him from the previous session, perhaps about some coping skill that he had recommended. After being told that it had worked like a charm, he could sit back self-assuredly and revel in the fact that he still "had it!" But deep down, Frank didnt believe that it was about "smarts." And, furthermore, a technique that he considered right on the money (for example, one where the child was asked to look at a page of faces and discuss with him how that person might be feeling) might work great with one kid who was having trouble anticipating the actions of others, but the same intervention with another kid with the same problem might result in the kid looking at Frank as if to say, "you want me to do what, and what was the name of that planet youre from again?" What was going on here? After all, didnt Frank offer his highly skilled clinical ear and life-altering insights to all these kids the same way? It was past time for an ego check. How self-absorbed could he have been? Could it be that Frank had been imparting knowledge, providing choices, and offering support in the manner in which he was most comfortable, without any consideration for how his clients might learn best? Were the kids who were progressing in counseling doing so because they happened to be strong verbal-linguistic learners like he was? Had Frank neglected to pay attention to how the majority of these troubled kids learn best? Had he neglected the kids who learned best hands-on (bodily-kinesthetic learners)? And the ones who loved to solve puzzles and try experiments (logical-mathematical learners)? There are seven learning styles in all (Gardner, 1983; Armstrong, 1993). Ouch! It was about that time that Frank met his coauthor, L.A. Watson, a highly skilled, thoroughly experienced Special Educator and about the most creative, solution-focused individual Frank had ever met. Many, many conversations followed. Frank learned that individual learning styles had been getting attention for several years (Gardner, 1983; Armstrong, 1993; Lazear, 1994) in the field of Special Education and that the more progressive programs were applying this information to "Special Education kids" with learning and behavior problems. Lynn Ann understood early in life (herself a strong visual-spatial learner) how a student could become distracted from the words of a high-school French teacher because of the teachers unusual mannerisms and style of dress. Some 30 years later, Lynn can recall almost no conversational French, but she will forever remember (and be capable of drawing) a striking caricature of her eccentric French teacher, including high-heeled shoes, vibrant tight-fitted dresses, red nails, and lipstick. So, how widely was this information about learning styles being applied to kids with behavior problems? How many special educators were applying it, let alone regular classroom teachers? What about counselors and other mental health professionals? And, maybe the most important question of all, were parents paying attention to how their kids learned best? Was anyone communicating the importance of learning styles to parents? Where was the workbook for ADHD kids and other kids with frontal lobe deficits so they could learn about feelings, getting along with others, and dealing with anger? We couldnt find it, and so we came up with one, an evolved form of which you are now reading. The coup de grace occurred when our completed, but yet unpublished, workbook came to the attention of best-selling author, Dr. Jay Carter. Dr. Jay confirmed the need for such a book and the absence of anything like it. We are indebted to Dr. Jay for his tweaking of our thinking, for his invaluable and insightful contributions to this text and, most importantly, for his sincere belief that this workbook will make a real difference in the lives of kids. Description for Bookstore Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) are among the most misunderstood problems facing young children today. Drugs like Ritalin and Cylert are traditionally prescribed to treat these disorders, but their use is controversial. While many children have been helped by these medications, at best, pills only temporarily improve symptoms. Sometimes they dont work at all, and they can come with disturbing side effects such as weight loss, insomnia, and may even slow growth in younger children. ADD/ADHD Drug Free gives frustrated parents a long-awaited natural alternative. The first book to feature enjoyable, practical activities for children that will help them cope with their disorder by strengthening brain functioning, this life-changing guide shows parents, teachers, and counselors how they can improve learning and behavior effectively and without medication. Timely and thoroughly researched, this guide will help thousands of children become more focused and more successful in school and in life, without jeopardizing their health. Details ISBN0814400949 Author L.A. Watson Short Title ADD ADHD DRUG FREE Pages 216 Publisher AMACOM/American Management Association Language English ISBN-10 0814400949 ISBN-13 9780814400944 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 618.928 Illustrations Yes Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-07-31 Imprint Amacom Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Residence Gardnerville, NV, US Affiliation Frank Jacobelli, Clinical Coordinator for Enki Health and Research Sys Series Agency/Distributed Subtitle Natural Alternatives and Practical Exercises to Help Your Child Focus DOI 10.1604/9780814400944 Audience General/Trade Audience Age 17-17 AU Release Date 2018-04-24 NZ Release Date 2018-04-24 US Release Date 2018-04-24 UK Release Date 2018-04-24 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126508270;

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