Clinician's Guide to Adult ADHD: Assessment and Intervention (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional) [Paperback]

Sam Goldstein (Editor), Anne Teeter Ellison (Editor)

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Publication Date: September 10, 2002 | Series: Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional

This text offers practicing clinicians strategies, interventions, suggestions, guidance and ideas to work with adults struggling with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and is intended as a reference to which clinicians will turn time and time again as issues or problems present themselves. The text will also provide a comprehensive review of the scientific literature and expand the development of an ongoing model to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

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"Clinician's Guide to Adult ADHD: Assessment and Intervention by Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., and Anne Teeter Ellison, Ed.D., is unique for its balanced view of the scientific literature and the clinical relevance of these research findings for the treatment of AD/HD in adults... Comprehensive in its depth and subject matter, the book consists of 15 chapters written by highly respected experts in the field of AD/HD... Clinician's Guide is a much-needed text. It represents an impressive compilation of scientific knowledge concerning AD/HD and provides practical strategies and interventions for clinicians helping adults with AD/HD. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and clinicians working in the field of AD/HD in adults."
-ATTENTION! MAGAZINE

From the Back Cover

This book is devoted to the treatment of adult ADHD, presenting a comprehensive review of the existing literature, a practical set of clinical guidelines, and the observations and insights of professionals on the research and the clinical treatment of this condition. Clinician's Guide to Adult ADHD offers promising techniques combined with the application of treatment methods conforming to accepted community standards and the responsible interpretation of clinical science. The book provides an overview of childhood ADHD, current research in the field relative to adult ADHD, assessment, clinical case studies, and chapters dealing with medical, psychosocial, psychological, marital, legal, and lifestyle issues.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 299 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (September 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0122870492
• ISBN-13: 978-0122870491
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #877,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bill Clinton's classic ADHD symptoms, Hillary's compensating, April 23, 2004

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This review is from: Clinician's Guide to Adult ADHD: Assessment and Intervention (Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional) (Paperback)

Having noticed and become more familiar with symptoms and failures of ADHD, it is helpful for how often these factors show up in society. For example, the "enigma" of Bill Clinton may be confusing to many, but may be a result of the class symptoms of many of the characteristics of ADHD undiagnosed persons whose spouses often compensate for them in many situations and circumstances. This can be seen in many cases where she "spoke for him," in interviews, for example, to explain what he meant, or to clarify his views, specifically in the 1995 interview about Flowers when he said "he had caused pain in his marriage." Reviewing the many complaints or observations of his staff about his personality suggests that he was indeed not only brilliant, but also suffered the effects of ADHD that had never been diagnosed, and should be looked at with what we are beginning to learn about adults with undiagnosed ADHD. All signs point to this problem and may explain much of his approach and his behavior, especially the desire to do everything at once, and to jump around from thing to thing. The extent of the effects of childhood trauma and the possibility of undiagnosed ADHD together make for a very interesting analysis of this complicated person, and how his family and friends deal with, or cover for him, in many situations. Hillary has classic characteristics of many of the compensating ADHD behaviors that unwittingly spouses fall into using to cope with their ADHD mates over time.