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Authors: Edward H. Jacobs
ISBN-13: 9780765702739, ISBN-10: 0765702738
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Date Published: November 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Edward H. Jacobs

Book Synopsis

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.

Booknews

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)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: How to Use This Guidebook
1	The Therapeutic Relationship	1
2	What Is ADHD?: Explaining It to Parents	21
3	Could My Child Have ADHD?	29
4	The Assessment Process	35
5	Identifying the Child's Problem Areas and Setting Goals	47
6	Discipline and Authority	61
7	Teaching Skills to ADHD Children	83
8	Working as a Parenting Team	149
9	Cooperative Parenting after Separation or Divorce	169
10	To Medicate or Not to Medicate	179
11	Is My Child Getting the Help He or She Needs?	185
12	Parents Ask: Can I Be a Better Parent?	191
13	Parent Ask: Could I Have ADHD?	211
14	The Parenting Scorecard	217
15	Coming to Terms with the Parents' Own Parents	221
16	Final Thoughts	235
	References	241
	Index	243

Subjects

Nonfiction

Psychology

Psychological Disorders
Parenting & Family

ADD / ADHD

Attention deficit disorder in children -> Popular works
Parenting & Family

Children with Special Needs