BOOKS

Books for Adults

  • ADD and SuccessLynn Weiss, Ph.D. (1998) ISBN #0-87833-994-9This book will guide you to understand and embrace your ADD characteristics, helping you lead a more enjoyable and productive life.
  • ADD in the Workplace: Choices, Changes and Challenges. Kathleen G. Nadeau, Ph.D. (1997) ISBN #0-87630-847-7 This guide focuses on adults living with ADD, and illustrates various ways to initiate and maintain the best possible work situation.
  • ADD-Friendly Ways To Organize Your Life. Judith Kolberg, & Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. (2002) ISBN #1-58391-358-0This is a book that has ADD-Friendly advice with the ADDer in mind. This collaboration brings forth the best underlying understanding with the most effective and practical remedy from ADD experts in two important fields -professional organization and clinical psychology. Finally, it offers organizing advice that ranges from self-help to utilizing the help of non-professionals, to using professional assistance. Thus it permits the reader to decide where they are at personally in the organizing process, and what level of support will be most beneficial to their unique situation.
  • ADD Success Stories: A Guide to Fulfillment for Families with Attention Deficit Disorder. Thom Hartmann. (1995) ISBN #1-887424-03-2.Real-life stories of people with attention deficit disorder who achieved success in school, at work, in marriages and relationships.
  • Adventures in Fast Forward: Life, Love, and Work for the ADD Adult. Kathleen G. Nadeau. (1996) ISBN # 0-87630-800-0. This resource is filled with important tools and tactics for self-care and success and includes many personal stories from others that tell how and why these approaches worked for them.
  • Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception.Thom Hartmann. (1993)ISBN # 1-887424-14-8.Thom Hartman explains some of the positive characteristics sometimes associated with ADD and provides an explanation of the disorder that can help adults at home, work and in school.
  • Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults.Lynn Weiss, Ph. D. (1997)ISBN #0-87833-979-5.ADD frequently persists into adulthood, affecting as much as 10 percent of the adult population. Only recently have adults begun to recognize the symptoms in themselves and in spouses or relatives.
  • Journeys Through Adulthood.Sari Solden (2002)ISBN # 0-8027-1376-9Offers a wealth of wisdom, sound advice, reassuring experiences, and hope for adults with ADHD.
  • Magnificent Mind at Any Age: Natural Ways to Unleash Your Brain's Maximum Potential.Daniel G. Amen, M.D. (2008)Dr. Amen shows how many of the traditional approaches to overcoming the mind-centered challenges that hold us back—try harder, work longer, find the sheer willpower—either do not work or may make our problems worse. A range of options are explored to optimize brain function.
  • Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD.Terry Matlen, M.S.W. (2005)ISBN# 1-886941-59-9This is an outstanding compilation of practical solutions to everyday problems for women with AD/HD. Terry’s contributors include a global network of clever, creative women with AD/HD, as well as many premier AD/HD experts, coaches, and professional organizers.
  • Understanding Women with AD/HD.Kathleen G. Nadeau, Ph.D., and Patricia O. Quinn, M.D.(1995)ISBN # 0-9660366-4-6A companion to Understanding Girls with AD/HD,(see parents section) this book expands and extends the dialogue about AD/HD and gender issues.
  • Women with Attention Deficit Disorder.Sari Solden, MS MFCC.(1995)ISBN #1-887424-14-8Sari Solden combines real-life histories, treatment experiences and recent clinical research to highlight the special challenges facing women with ADD.
  • You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo (1993)ISBN# 0-684-80116-7Engaging, humorous and filled with straightforward, practical advice for taking control of the symptoms, minimizing the disabilities and maximizing the advantages of adult ADD.

Books for Parents and Teachers

  • ADHD Handbook for Families: A Guide to Communicating with Professionals. Paul Weingartner. (1999) ISBN # 0-87868-750-5. This resource is filled with important tools and tactics for self-care and success and includes many personal stories from others that tell how and why these approaches worked for them.
  • ADHD in the Young Child: A Guide for Parents and Teachers of Young Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Cathy Reimers, Ph.D. and Bruce A. Brunger. (1999)ISBN # 1-886941-32-7. A unique book, where the authors sensitively and effectively describe what life is like living with a young child with ADHD. They review characteristics of ADHD, causes and medical and behavior modification treatments.
  • A Walk in the Rain with a Brain. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. (2004) ISBN #0-06-000731-1 A wonderfully warm adventure about ‘finding your brain’s special, best way.’ Dr. Hallowell shows how no brain is the same, no brain is best, each brain finds its own special way. Helping kids to do this, he says, is one of the keys to a successful, happy life. This beautifully illustrated book also includes a parent/teacher discussion guide to help children begin to think about their brains and pinpoint their interests and special talents.
  • ADHD and Teens: A Parents Guide to Making it Through the Tough Years. Colleen Alexander-Roberts (1995)ISBN # 0-87833-899-3.This resource is filled with important tools and tactics for self-care and success and includes many personal stories from others that tell how and why these approaches worked for them.
  • ADHD: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adults. Paul H. Wender, M.D. (2001) ISBN # 0-19-511349-7.This book reviews what is known about ADHD, its symptoms, its life course, its causes and the usefulness of various treatments.
  • AD/HD & Driving: A Guide for Parents of Teens with AD/HD.J. Marlene Snyder, Ph.D. (2001)ISBN # 0-9708813-0-4.This book makes parents aware of the many decisions that they must make before putting their child in the driver's seat. Practical checklists, worksheets, and sample contracts are provided to assist the parent in encouraging safe driving behavior in their child who has AD/HD.
  • AD/HD: What Every Parent Wants to Know.David L. Woodrich. (2000)ISBN # 1-55766-398-X.This book provides an excellent resource for understanding and diagnosing ADHD, as well as "overlapping" disorders, like ODD, and Conduct Disorder. There is also a detailed section on treatment, including behavior management and medication.
  • All About Attention Deficit Disorder. Thomas Phelan, Ph.D. (1996) ISBN # 1-889140-11-2.A readable, practical and comprehensive manual for parents and teachers interested in understanding the facts about ADD.
  • Attention Deficit Disorders and Comorbidities in Children, Adolescents and Adults.Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D. (2000)ISBN# 0-88048-711-9.This book is quite different from most existing books on ADHD. It includes clear explanation of a new model for understanding ADHD as a complex set of impairments in management functions of the mind.
  • Attention, Please!Edna D. Copeland, Ph.D. and Valerie L. Love, M.Ed. (1995)ISBN #1-886941-02-5.This comprehensive guide for successfully parenting children with ADD and hyperactivity, enables parents to knowledgeably orchestrate the group of professionals and educators who impact their children's lives.
  • Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Helps Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong JoyEdward M. Hallowell, M.D.(2002)ISBN #0-345-44233-4Dr. Hallowell delves into the world of childhood in this warm, easy-to-read, often humorous, and always illuminating book. Based upon the latest research, Dr. Hallowell has developed a simple, five-step process that all parents can easily use to make sure their children have the right kind of childhood, the kind of childhood that will lead to happiness later on, as well as moral behavior, an attitude of cooperation, and a zest for life. This book shows parents how to help their children get the best out of life, while avoiding the dangers that lurk along the way.
  • Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder.Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. (2005)ISBN # 0-345-44230-xLearn how to get the most out of life with ADD and the 5-step plan for targeting strengths, promoting talents, and creating a pathway to a joyful and productive life. Dr. Hallowell debunks the many myths that abound about ADD and replaces them with factual information, presented in a readable, story-filled narrative.
  • Fidget to Focus.Roland Rotz, Ph.D. and Sarah D. Wright, M.S., A.C.T. (2005)Subtitled Outwit Your Boredom: Sensory Strategies for Living with ADD, this little book is full of tips and strategies collected over years of shared experiences. A wealth of information and sometimes surprising, sometimes heart-warming stories about how to stay focused and on track, even when tasks are dull, tedious and boring.
  • Healing ADD.Daniel G. Amen, M.D. (2001)ISBN # 0-399-14644-XDr. Amen explains his theory of the six types of ADD and provides a comprehensive treatment program that can lead to normal, peaceful, and fully functional life.
  • How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children.Sandra Rief, M.A. (1993)ISBN # 876284136For educators, specialists, and parent, a remarkable resource packed with classroom-tested techniques and practical know-how for helping children with attention deficit disorders with or without hyperactivity.
  • Late, Lost and Unprepared: A Parents’ Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning.Joyce Cooper-Kahn, Ph.D. & Laurie Dietzel, Ph.D. (2008)ISBN# 978-1-890627-84-3A practical and down-to-earth guide for parents of children and adolescents who have difficulty with planning and organization, self-monitoring, impulse control, working memory, and initiating tasks.
  • Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child.Robert Brooks, Ph.D. and Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. (2002)ISBN # 0-8092-9765-5This book explains how to help children become emotionally and mentally strong to face the challenges of modern life.
  • Study Strategies for Early School Success.Sandi Sirotowitz, M. Ed., Leslie Davis, M. Ed., and Harvey C. Parker, Ph.D. (2003)ISBN #1-886941-55-6A book for students grades three through six. The focus is on teaching the following strategies: organizing school supplies and work space; taking notes in class; improving reading comprehension; getting homework done; getting better grades on tests; writing book reports and doing projects; doing oral presentations.
  • Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child.Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. & Peter S. Jensen, M.D. (2008)ISBN# 978-0-345-49776-5Filled with practical strength-based techniques that put the talents, charms, and positive essence of your child ahead of any presumed shortcoming associated with ADD.
  • Surviving Your Adolescents. How to Manage and Let Go Of Your 13-18 Year OldsThomas Phelan, Ph.D. (1989)ISBN # 1-889140-08-2Adolescents don't have to drive you crazy as they push towards independence. Dr. Phelan gives you a step-by-step approach that will help end the hassles and offers concrete solutions.
  • Teaching Teens with ADD and ADHD.Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M. S. (1993)ISBN # 1-890627-20-8This comprehensive book recognizes the pivotal role teachers play in the long-term success of their students with ADHD in middle school and high school.
  • Teenagers with ADD: A Parent's Guide.Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M. S.(1995) ISBN #0-933149-69-7This book provides parents with the tools they need to raise a healthy, well adjusted teen. In this book, parents will find information and advice about maintaining a positive attitude, seeking appropriate treatment and interventions, and how to advocate for themselves.
  • The ADD/ADHD Checklist, An Easy Reference for Parents & Teachers.Sandra Rief, M. A. (1998)ISBN# 0-13-762395-XThis unique resource for parents and teachers is packed with up-to-date facts, findings and proven strategies and techniques for understanding and helping children and adolescents with attention deficit problems and hyperactivity.
  • The Explosive Child.Ross Greene, Ph.D. (2001)ISBN # 0-694-52190-6A practical approach to treating "explosive" children. Dr. Greene explains that the difficulties of these children stem from brain based deficits in the ability to be flexible and to handle frustration.
  • Understanding Girls with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen B. Littman, and Patricia O. Quinn.(1999)ISBN # 0-9660366-5-4For many girls, ADHD symptoms are a hidden problem often overlooked or misunderstood. Diagnosed later, symptom may go untreated. Find out how ADHD affects girls from preschool through high school.
  • Voices From Fatherhood: Fathers, Sons and ADHD.Patrick J. Kilcarr, Ph.D. and Patricia O. Quinn, M.D. (1997)ISBN #0-87630-858-2The father-son relationship is a special one. Written to specifically help fathers navigate the complex world of fatherhood and ADHD, this book helps fathers enhance and deepen their relationships with their sons while providing them with strategies for guiding their sons.

Books for Children and Teenagers

  • Attention Girls! A Guide to Learn All About Your AD/HD.Patricis Quinn, M.D. (2009)This is the first book written for 'tween' girls (ages 7-11) who have ADD/HD. Written by a developmental pediatrician, it offers girls, their parents, and professionals practical tips and techniques for managing attention disorders and the many aspects of life that these disorders can affect. This book was written in an engaging style that doesn't 'talk down' to girls. It is packed with useful and empowering lessons that are simple to apply.
  • Help 4 ADD@HighSchool.Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. (1998)ISBN# 0-9660366-1-1If you are a teenager with ADD, this book was written with you in mind. Designed like a web site that you can “surf” its short, easy-to-read, information-packed sections will tell you what you need to know about how to get your life together- for yourself, not your parents and your teachers.
  • Hypermagic Ian and his gift of ADHD.Emiline Yakin Sigwalt (2008)ISBN # 978-84-612-4552-9This marvelous book was created to help children and adults feel comfortable with their own unique difference. Emiline’s message is inspiring and powerful.
  • Learning Outside the Lines.Jonathan Mooney and David Cole.(2000)Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD give you the tools for academic success and educational revolution. For college and teens
  • Otto Learns About His Medicine.Mathew Galvin, M.D. (2001)ISBN# 1-55798-772-6Otto is a high-octane young car whose motor runs too fast. He also has trouble paying attention in school, is easily distracted, and says and does things without thinking. Otto and his parents visit a pit crew of special mechanics, who prescribe a medicine to help slow down Otto’s racing motor and help him find ways to become more focused and organized. Ages 5-10.
  • Piper The Hyperactive Mouse.Mark Lowry and Martha Bolton.There are 4 books in this series: Pipers Night Before Christmas (1998) ISBN# 1582290008; Nighttime Is Just Daytime With Your Eyes Closed (1999) ISBN# 1582290768; Piper Steals The Show (2000) ISBN# 1582291276, Piper’s Twisted Tale (2001) ISBN# 1582291926. Growing up with ADHD, Mark readily identifies with the character in his books, Piper the Hyper Mouse. Mark is a multi-talented artist whose is a popular Christian comedian, singer, and songwriter, as well as author of these wonderful children's books. Each book comes with a CD with Mark narrating the story. These books are a must!
  • Putting On The Brakes.Patricia O. Quinn, M.D.Judith Stern, M.A.(2001)ISBN# 1-55798-795-5All you need to know about attention deficit disorder, with or without hyperactivity: what it is and what to do about it. This classic resource for young people, their parents, and professionals is now revised and expanded. Ages 8-12
  • Shelley, The Hyperactive Turtle.Deborah Moss. (1989)ISBN# 093314931Here’s the delightful story of a bright young turtle that’s not like all the other turtles. Shelley moves like a rocket, and is unable to sit still for even the shortest periods of time. Ages 3-7
  • Zipper, The Kid with ADD.Caroline Janover. (1997)ISBN# 0-933149-95-6“Stop tapping,” says Zipper’s sister during dinner. “Can’t you ever sit still?” It seems Zipper (a.k.a. Zachary Winson) is always annoying somebody. He speaks before he thinks, making it hard to keep friends; he forgets to do his homework; and although he’s a talented pitcher, he misses a key baseball game. Underneath it all, Zipper is a smart, motivated fifth grader, but his impulsiveness gets him into a lot of trouble at home and at school. Follow Zipper as things start to turn around, and everyone roots for him to succeed. Ages 8-13

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