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ADHD

What Every Parent Needs to Know
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Fully updated with the latest American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations, ADHD is an award-winning guide offering parents balanced and reassuring information to manage Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder effectively. It covers key topics such as evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions, behaviour therapy, academic challenges, medication options, and complementary treatments. The book also shares inspirational stories from other caregivers to provide support and encouragement.
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This book is ideal for parents and caregivers seeking clear, practical advice on understanding and supporting children with ADHD.

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This comprehensive guide to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) offers parents balanced, reassuring, and authoritative information to help them understand and manage this challenging and often misunderstood condition.

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Fully updated with the latest AAP recommendations, this award-winning guide offers parents balanced, reassuring information to help them manage this condition.

Topics include: evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions, behaviour therapy, ADHD and academics, the role of medication, and complementary and alternative treatments.

Parents will also find inspirational and relatable stories from other caretakers.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781610022644

Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 May 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: American Academy of Pediatrics

Edition: 3rd

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 458g

Pages: 342

About the Author

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 67,000 pediatricians.Joseph F. Hagan, Jr., MD, FAAP, is a clinical professor of pediatrics at The Robert Larner, MD College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and UVM Children's Hospital. Mark L. Wolraich, MD, FAAP, is the Shaun Walters Professor of Pediatrics, Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor, and chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

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