ADHD

In this practical and informative book, Dr. Edward H. Jacobs demonstrates how he helps parents work effectively to acquire skills that help their children. Clinicians will find concrete exercises, forms, and techniques that deal with such issues as the use of medication, the consequences of divorce, and the child with ADHD in the school system.

In this practical and informative book, Dr. Edward H. Jacobs demonstrates how he helps parents work effectively to acquire skills that help their children. Clinicians will find concrete exercises, forms, and techniques that deal with such issues as the use of medication, the consequences of divorce, and the child with ADHD in the school system.

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Jacobs, a psychologist, guides clinicians through the process of offering parents information about the nature of ADHD, coping with the parents' emotional reactions, identifying differences in mothering and fathering, and engaging the parents in an examination of the effectiveness of their parenting skills and their disciplinary methods. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Edward H. Jacobs, Ph.D., is a psychologist practicing in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He is the founder and director of the Learning Resource Center, where a team of professionals provides evaluations and consultations to children and adults with attention, learning, and behavioral problems.