Description: Understanding Girls with ADHD does not shy away from key areas of controversy. How, for example, can a family know whether it's ADHD or another set of problems that's the primary issue? How does one deal with the potential use of medication, which is plagued by bad press and abundant myths but which can, as part of a multi-faceted treatment plan, provide great benefit if the right dose is found and if the doctor works with the family to monitor positive effects and side effects carefully? What about longterm risk for eating pathology, substance abuse, and other difficult areas of impairment of salience for girls? How can girls and their families break through the thicket of negative expectations and sometimes-toxic family interactions to pave the way for a different set of outcomes? Always sensitive, and without hesitation in providing an authoritative tone, this book will empower girls and their families in ways that are sorely needed. Its emphasis on gender-specific manifestations of ADHD and its inclusion of practical means of attacking the executive-function deficits that plague girls and women with ADHD will ensure its continued status as core guidebook.
Brief description: Kathleen Nadeau, PhD, is the founder and clinical director of the Chesapeake ADHD Center of Maryland, Learning and Behavioral Health, one of the largest and oldest ADHD specialty clinics in the US. Dr. Nadeau is a prolific writer about ADHD, and has authored or co-authored over a dozen books on the topic. She and her long-time professional collaborator, Patricia Quinn, MD, shared the CHADD Hall of Fame Award in 1999 for their groundbreaking work on women and girls with ADHD.