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The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents

  The Living with ADD Book for the month for April 2008 is The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents. Nancy Ratey provides just the right combination of her own personal experiences along with helpful tips and strategies. The book has a very ADHD-Friendly setup and is very easy to read. The Tips and strategies are also very useful and easy to implement. This book is a must have for adults with ADHD!

On Tuesday April 22, 2008 at 8:00 pm Eastern Nancy Ratey author of The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents will be leading the special free TeleSeminar  The Disorganized Mind: Coaching Your ADHD Brain to Take Control of Your Time, Tasks, and Talents through ADDClasses.com

Integrative Treatment for Adult ADHD

The Living with ADD Book of the month for January, 2008 is Integrative Treatment for Adult ADHD: A Practical, Easy-To-Use Guide for Clinicians by Ari Tuckman, PsyD. Even though the intended audience of this book is clinicians it's written so anybody can understand it. It's a great book for adults with ADHD and anybody else who has an interest in Adult ADHD. It's also a great resource for adults with ADHD to recommend to their doctors, therapists, and ADHD Coaches.

On Tuesday January 22, 2008 at 9:00 pm EST Ari Tuckman, PsyD author of Integrative Treatment for Adult ADHD: A Practical, Easy-To-Use Guide for Clinicians will be leading the free TeleSeminar Adult ADHD and Building Self-Esteem through www.addclasses.com.

Fidget to Focus Teleclass

On Tuesday November 27, 2007 at 9:00 pm EST ADHD Coach Sarah Wright along with Roland Rotz will be leading the free teleclass Fidget to Focus through ADDClasses.com. Sarah Wright and Roland Rotz are co-authors of the book Fidget to Focus. This teleclass is free and registered participants can either call in using a telephone or listen live over the Internet. Sign up now at www.addclasses.com

An Asset for Adults with ADD/ADHD

Here’s a cruel Catch-22 for you.  Millions of American adults have ADD.  How do you write an effective self-help book for someone who has trouble keeping focused?  For the answer, you can turn to Dr. Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, whose new book 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD, succinctly provides strategies that sufferers of Attention Deficit Disorder can internalize. 

    “There’s a lot of information about ADD out there,” says Sarkis, a counselor and ADD/ADHD coach.  “It’s often clinical, complicated, and long, not exactly perfect for someone with an attention problem.  If you have ADD, you need straightforward tools presented quickly and engagingly.  And if you’re lucky enough to get them, your life is going to improve.”

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Expert Explains the Link between Eating Disorders and Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD) in New Book

New Book Reveals a Piece of the Puzzle for Women with Eating Disorders or Attention Deficit Disorder.

In her new book, Pieces of a Puzzle: The Link between Eating Disorders and ADD, Dr. Carolyn Dukarm focuses on the overlap between eating disorders and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and points out how diagnosing and treating both disorders can provide the missing pieces of the puzzle that hold the key to recovery.

People suffer daily from the symptoms of eating disorders. For some, however, eating is not the only area of their life that is out-of-control. “Every day I would see women that did not meet the criteria for either anorexia or bulimia, but clearly had disturbed eating habits, with typically no regularly planned meals or snacks, and an inability to follow dietary plans for any useful length of time,” states Dr. Carolyn Dukarm, an eating disorders specialist in Buffalo, New York. As these patients were more carefully evaluated in her Center for Eating Disorders, it became clear that the incidence of undiagnosed attention deficit disorder was very high.

New book by Michigan State professor explores causes of ADHD

Michigan State University

June 1, 2006

In his new book, “What Causes ADHD? Understanding What Goes Wrong and Why,” Michigan State University psychologist Joel Nigg brings together the most recent neuropsychological research in an attempt to answer this challenging question.

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Inconsistent Effort May Be Sign of Attention Disorder in Adults and Children

The adult or child who only concentrates when performing an activity in which they have a deep interest, such as playing a sport or drawing, may have "impotence of the mind," according to a new book by Thomas E. Brown, clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.

"Impotence of the mind is a chronic inability to mobilize focus and effort unless the task is personally interesting," said Brown, who specializes in treating adults and children with attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). "Such problems may appear to be a lack of sufficient willpower, but often they are manifestations of a complex disorder of the management system of the brain."

His book, "Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults" (Yale University Press), offers practical guidelines for identifying and helping individuals of any age who suffer from the complex impairments of ADD, an often talked about but widely misunderstood disorder. The book offers an explanation for the adult or child who may appear unmotivated and have chronic difficulty in focusing on and completing most work tasks, even when they know the work is important and they actually want to do it.

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Adult attention disorder comes to work

Ask any adult in the workplace if he or she has attention deficit disorder and you may get a dirty look for your trouble. That's probably because the condition - known for symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity - isn't something that any employee wants to admit.

   And yet, it's estimated that nearly 8 million adults in this country have ADD, not taking into account those who only suspect they have the condition.

   ''ADD is not the kiss of death, but there is still a stigma attached,'' says Blythe Grossberg, a career consultant with a doctorate in organization psychology. ''Employees who have admitted to having ADD to their employees find that it really backfires.''

   That's partly because many employers have little true understanding of adult ADD, and partly because bosses often don't understand the strengths those with ADD bring to the workplace, she says.

Vancouver ADHD author to be interviewed on adult ADHD

Pills Don't Teach Skills.

That's the title of a new book on ADHD being written by Vancouver based Jeff Hamilton and Pete Quily, Adult ADD Coach.

Pills CAN be very useful for ADHD, but they're not enough. When you're dealing with ADHD you need other tools as well.

Jeff will be interviewed on the Tina O show on CFUN Radio, AM 1410 ( www.cfun.com ) on Thursday August 11th, 4pm PST on his experiences dealing with ADHD. Listen live on the internet.

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Seeing the bright side of ADHD

Everyone seems to have an opinion on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Parents, teachers, doctors, even Tom Cruise, have debated the disorder and the medications commonly used treat it. But clinical psychologist Lara Honos-Webb has a different take: She doesn't think ADHD is a disorder at all.

In "The Gift of ADHD: How to Transform Your Child's Problems into Strengths", Honos-Webb argues that, while the qualities displayed by children diagnosed with ADHD may be at odds with the current educational system, they aren't in themselves negative. In fact, these children are gifted with creativity, exuberance, interpersonal intuition and ecological consciousness, contends Honos-Webb. Her book suggests parents of ADHD kids should look at their children in a more positive light; it also contains exercises for parents and children to do together to maximize the child's abilities.

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