ADHD Books for Parents

Written by a pediatrician and based in proven-effective mindfulness techniques, this book will help you and your child with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) keep calm, flexible, and in control.

Kids with ADHD are often inattentive, hyperactive, and impulsive, since ADHD affects all of self-management and self-regulation. As a result, you might become chronically frustrated or stressed out, which makes caring for ADHD that much harder.

In this book, a developmental pediatrician presents a proven-effective program for helping both you and your child with ADHD stay cool and collected while remaining flexible, resilient, and mindful.

From distinguished researcher/clinician Russell A. Barkley, this treasured parent resource gives you the science-based information you need about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment.

It also presents a proven eight-step behavior management plan specifically designed for 6- to 18-year-olds with ADHD.

Offering encouragement, guidance, and loads of practical tips. Updated throughout with current research and resources, the third edition includes the latest facts about medications and about what causes (and doesn’t cause) ADHD.

Written by two professionals who have “been there and done that” with their own sons with ADHD, “Raising Boys With ADHD” empowers parents to help their sons with ADHD find success in school and beyond.

The book covers topics not often found in other parenting guides such as the preschool years and early diagnosis and strategies for teens transitioning to work and college.

Filled with practical knowledge, resources, and tools needed to help parents address the many strengths and challenges of boys with ADHD, this book provides parents with encouragement and hope for the future.

In this expanded and updated book, Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen Littman, and Patricia Quinn rise to the occasion and deliver a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable book that illuminates the complexity of ADHD in girls and women, both across the lifespan and across multiple domains of life (e.g., home, school, the workplace, close relationships).

Blending clinical examples, case material, and a masterful synthesis of research findings around the world, the authors reveal the roots of ADHD in females during the preschool years, also summarizing relevant causal factors, and display the highly individualized journeys through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood that these girls and women face.

In Parenting ADHD Now! the authors combine their practical know-how and professional expertise to offer immediate, actionable strategies you can use to guide and support your ADHD child compassionately and effectively.

You can dramatically improve life for your child with ADHD. With Parenting ADHD Now! you will learn to set healthy limits, find compassion and acceptance, change your habits, laugh instead of cry, understand instead of yell, and thrive instead of just survive.

Over the past 30 years, Dr. Monastra has treated more than 15,000 clients who have ADHD.

In this indispensable book he shares the knowledge he has gained. Engaging and straightforward, the book is directed at parents of children who have, or might have, ADHD.

In a conversational style, Monastra offers a series of sequential lessons, beginning with the causes of ADHD and the most common medical treatments.

He discusses all the relevant issues for parents, including psychological treatment, diet, educational laws, and practical coping strategies for both parents and children.

Written by an expert with over 15 years of experience in treating adult ADHD and ADHD in children, Focused offers essential information to empower parents and provide immediate assistance.

Learn to uncover your child’s considerable strengths and work around their obstacles with concrete, actionable strategies that improve executive functioning, support emotional development, and promote positive behavior.

Has your child's behavior started changing suddenly?

Does your child suddenly have outbursts such as crying, screaming, biting, kicking, hitting, or even destroying property? Dealing with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) might seem challenging at first. But there's nothing to be afraid of.

Written by Theresa Miller, an experienced therapist and author, this guide is about to teach you everything there is to know about ADHD! From possible treatment options to techniques and intervention strategies, you'll find everything you need to help your child lead a normal life.

The latest research in child development shows that many kids who have the brain and heart to succeed lack or lag behind in crucial “executive skills” – the fundamental habits of mind required for getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions.

Learn easy-to-follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines.

Small changes can add up to big improvements – this empowering book shows how.

2009 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA)! Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful.

Children with weak executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework but forget to turn it in, wait until the last minute to start a project, lose things, or have a room that looks like a dump!

The good news is that parents can do a lot to support and train their children to manage these frustrating and stressful weaknesses.

If you're the parent of a "smart but scattered" teen, trying to help him or her grow into a self-sufficient, responsible adult may feel like a never-ending battle.

Now you have an alternative to micromanaging, cajoling, or ineffective punishments.

This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens' independence by building their executive skills -- the fundamental brain-based abilities needed to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions.

Executive skills experts Drs. Richard Guare and Peg Dawson are joined by Colin Guare, a young adult who has successfully faced these issues himself.

People with ADHD are restless, endlessly curious, often adventurous, willing to take smart risks, and unusually resilient, and their ranks include some of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.

Sharing the stories of highly successful people with ADHD, Archer offers a vitally important and inspiring new way to recognize ADHD traits in oneself or in one’s loved ones and then leverage them to great advantage.

Concise and practitioner friendly, this bestselling guide has helped put executive skills on the map for school-based clinicians and educators. The book explains how these critical cognitive processes develop and why they play such a key role in children’s behavior and school performance.

Provided are step-by-step guidelines and many practical tools to promote executive skill development by implementing environmental modifications, individualized instruction, coaching, and whole-class interventions.

In a large-size format with convenient lay-flat binding, the book includes more than two dozen reproducible assessment tools, checklists, and planning sheets.

Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to “pick up the pace”? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done–whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning?

Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby have worked with thousands of kids and teens who struggle with an area of cognitive functioning called “processing speed,” and who are often mislabeled as lazy or unmotivated.

Filled with vivid stories and examples, this crucial resource demystifies processing speed and shows how to help kids (ages 5 to 18) catch up in this key area of development. Helpful practical tools can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2″ x 11″ size.

Learn how to obtain needed support at school, what to expect from a professional evaluation, and how you can make daily routines more efficient — while promoting your child’s social and emotional well-being.

This manual goes beyond the “what” to explain “why” the problems are likely occurring, followed up with the most effective interventions.

Dr. Russell Barkley, internationally respected expert on ADHD, draws on his 40 years of clinical work with thousands of students, teachers and schools to create a definitive resource for the most effective methods in overcoming impairments for children and teens with ADHD.

Managing ADHD in School details more than 100 evidence-based recommendations to help teachers and clinicians increase the success of children and teens with ADHD. 

Whether you are the parent of a child with special education needs, a seasoned educator, or a professional advocate, you have questions about Individualized Education Programs, (IEPs).

In this comprehensive, easy to read book, you will find clear, concise answers to frequently asked questions about IEPs.

Learn what the law says about IEP Teams and IEP Meetings, Parental Rights and Consent, Steps in Developing the IEP, Placement, Transition, Assistive Technology and Strategies to Resolve Disagreements.