This book introduces Parental Friendship Coaching (PFC), an intervention that parents can use to support peer relationships in their elementary school-aged children with ADHD. In the PFC program, clinicians work with parents to coach their children with ADHD in friendship behaviors that help develop and maintain high-quality relationships. Featuring 10 research-based clinical sessions, the book provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for clinicians about intervention provision. Each session includes skills teaching devoted to supporting children’s peer relationships, activities to practice the skills in session, problem-solving about difficulties carrying out the skills, and homework to try the skills at home. This book also includes handouts for parents and clinicians, tips for clinicians about addressing common parent difficulties, and suggestions for progress monitoring. Intended for mental health professionals working with families of children with ADHD and peer problems, this book will aid clinicians in educating parents on how to support their children’s friendship development.

How to Make and Keep Friends: Helping Your Child Achieve Social Success is a how-to manual for parents of children with social challenges. The easy-to-read format outlines common barriers that hinder friendships, provides actionable tips for overcoming those obstacles, and includes suggested language for parents to use to provide support to their kids during unstructured social interactions. Parents play a vital role in the formation of social skills and helping their child find and keep friends. How to Make and Keep Friends: Helping Your Child Achieve Social Success shows parents how to guide their children toward meaningful social connections. While any parent and child can benefit from these tips, they are particularly useful for children with ADHD, Anxiety, Sensory Integration, Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities, Aspergers and High Functioning Autism.Donna and Nadine, both social-emotional learning specialists and coaches with extensive experience (and both are moms of children with social struggles), have used these coaching tips successfully over many years. In this companion to their best-selling friendship book for kids, How To Make and Keep Friends: Tips For Kids To Overcome 50 Common Social Challenges, they share their easy-to-implement techniques for coaching kids toward attaining, sustaining, and generalizing improved social skills. Also included are real-life stories of how their tips have proven useful for children attending their social skills programs.

First published in 2003. Children's Friendship Training is a complete manualized guide for therapists treating children with peer problems. This unique, empirically validated treatment is the first to integrate parents into the therapy process to ensure generalization to school and home. Representing over twelve years of research, Children's Friendship Training presents the comprehensive social skills training program developed by these pioneering authors. Step-by-step interventions help children develop the skills to initiate mutually satisfying social interactions. These interactions can lead to higher regard within the peer group and the development of satisfying dyadic relationships that will, in turn, serve to enhance overall well being. Clinical and empirical rationales, illustrative case examples and parent handouts that educate parents and give specific guidelines for homework assignments are presented for each treatment module. Brief relevant reviews of the child development literature and selective reviews of assessment techniques and other approached to children's social skills training are presented to sufficiently acquaint therapists interested in implementing children's friendship training.

MOM'S CHOICE AWARD WINNER From renowned parent expert Caroline Maguire, Why Will No One Play with Me? is a groundbreaking program that has helped thousands of children struggling with social skills to make friends, find acceptance, and have a happy childhood. Every parent wants their child to be okay--to have friends, to be successful, to feel comfortable in his or her own skin. But many children lack important social and executive functioning skills that allow them to navigate through the world with ease. In-demand parenting expert and former Hallowell Center coach Caroline Maguire has worked with thousands of families dealing with chronic social dilemmas, ranging from shyness to aggression to ADHD, and more. In this groundbreaking book, she shares her decade-in-the-making protocol--The Play Better Plan-- to help parents coach children to connect with others and make friends. Children of all ages--truly, from Kindergarten to college age-- will gain the confidence to make friends and get along with others, using tools such as:*Social Sleuthing: learn to pay attention to social cues *Post-Play Date Huddles: help kids figure out what to look for in a friendship*Reflective Listening: improve your child's relationship with their peers With compassion and ease, this program gives parents a tangible, easy-to-follow guide for helping kids develop the executive function and social skills they need to thrive.

"This edition strives to extract from the mine of available scientific literature those nuggets of clinically important information regarding the nature, assessment, diagnosis, and management of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents, and adults. The revised and expanded fourth edition of this user-friendly workbook provides a master set of the assessment and treatment forms, questionnaires, and handouts. Formatted for easy photocopying, many of these materials are available from no other source. Featured are interview forms and rating scales for use with parents, teachers, and adult clients; helpful checklists and fact sheets; daily school report cards for monitoring academic progress; and more" site web de l'éditeur.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a condition that will impact all aspects of your child's life and as his parent it will also affect yours and the lives of people who interact with your child. "ADHD Parenting: Parenting ADHD Children Simple Book for Parents Raising Kids with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" aims to help you know about: What is ADHD? Diagnosing ADHD Treatment and Choices Diet Exercise Behavior Modification Alternative Therapies ADHD Coaching Research and training ADHD in the Home Discipline and the ADHD Child Establishing Order ADHD at School Bullying Self Esteem Making Friends Dealing with Teen with ADHD Despite all the challenges that you face and the exhaustion you often feel, parenting a child with ADHD is a wonderful, emotion filled journey that will give you many opportunities to laugh and have fun. You will have the role of protector, coach, disciplinarian and friend. Guard against falling into the trap of treating your child like a patient so you miss the opportunity to really enjoy your time together as parent and child. There will be disappointments but there will also be moments of achievement and pure joy that you should savor and use to keep you going when things get rough. Have a copy of this book to know more about ADHD.

This issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics focuses on non-pharmacologic interventions for ADHD in children and adolescents. Editors Stephen Faraone's and Kevin Antshel's goal with this publication is to help the clinician decipher the literature base in an attempt to make informed decisions and recommendations for the families that they treat in light of new non-pharmacologic interventions. To guide readers of this issue, Authors present information in a specific structure designed to describe the non-pharmacologic intervention theoretically and practically, as well as provide clinically useful information regarding who is most likely to respond and which outcomes are most likely to be affected by treatment. Likewise, Authors include information on adverse effects / contraindications of the non-pharmacologic treatments and how treatments should be sequenced and/or integrated with other treatments. Science is translated into clinical practice that can be easily applied; this volume strikes a balance between reviewing the evidence base and providing clinically useful information. Among the topics are: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents with ADHD; Nutritional Supplements for the Treatment of ADHD; School-Based Interventions for Elementary School Students with ADHD; Middle and High School Based Interventions for Adolescents with ADHD; Healthy Body, Healthy Mind? The Effectiveness of Physical Activity to Treat ADHD in Children; Neurofeedback for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Review of Current Evidence; Social Skills Training; Behavior Management for Preschool-Aged Children; Computer-based Cognitive Training for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A review of current evidence; Restriction and Elimination Diets in ADHD Treatment; Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of ADHD: A Review; Summer Treatment Programs for Youth with ADHD; Non-Pharmacologic Treatments for ADHD; Behavior Management for School Aged Children with ADHD; Family Therapy for Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; An Integrated Dietary/Nutritional Approach to ADHD; Toward an Evidence-Based Taxonomy of Non-Pharmacologic Treatments for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.