Finding Your Focus Practical strategies for the everyday challenges facing adults with ADD,9780071453967

Finding Your Focus Practical strategies for the everyday challenges facing adults with ADD

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780071453967
ISBN10: 0071453962
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-10-06
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary

There are 10 million North Americans with Adult ADD, and approximately 50 percent to 65 percent of children with attention deficit disorder will continue to have problems as adults Provides six important tools to help readers overcome everyday problems with organization, disctraction, and attention In the tradition of bestsellers like Driven to Distraction, this book is one of the few on the market to offer practical tools and advice for adults with ADD Dr. Greenbaum has done presentations and workshops for the National Attention Deficit Disorder Foundation and Children and Adults with ADD, and Dr. Markel presents work/life seminars for many Fortune 500 companies

Author Biography

Judith Greenbaum, Ph.D., has a doctorate in special education and three decades of experience coaching people of all ages with ADD. She consults with schools designing special educational programs. Geraldine Markel, Ph.D., has a doctorate in educational psychology and a master's degree in reading. She is a professional consultant, speaker, and ADD coach.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
PART I Getting to Know Yourself
Understanding ADD
3(10)
Recognizing Symptoms
4(1)
Getting a Diagnosis: How to Tell If You Have ADD
5(2)
Some Treatment Options
7(1)
The Role of Attention
8(1)
ADD and Organizational Abilities
9(2)
How This Book Can Help You
11(2)
Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses
13(12)
Identifying Your Strengths
14(3)
Understanding Your Weaknesses
17(1)
Distinguishing Between Helpful and Difficult Environments
17(2)
Identifying Strategies That Work for You
19(4)
Using Self-Awareness to Prevent Problems
23(2)
Your Personal Tool Box
25(18)
Important Rules for Using the Tools
26(1)
Tool 1: Self-Talk
26(5)
Tool 2: Visualizing
31(2)
Tool 3: Hearing, Touching, Smelling, Tasting
33(1)
Tool 4: Routines
34(1)
Tool 5: Checklists
35(1)
Tool 6: Stop!
36(7)
PART II Practical Strategies for Everyday Problems
Help, I Can't Find My Keys!
43(14)
Why You Keep Losing Things
44(1)
Preventing Items from Getting Lost
44(1)
How to Stop Losing Your Keys
45(2)
How to Stop Losing Your Glasses, Wallet, or Cell Phone
47(1)
How to Remember Where You Parked Your Car
48(1)
How to Stop Misplacing Your Money
49(1)
How to Stop Getting Lost
50(3)
When Something Is Already Lost: Finding Misplaced Items
53(2)
Guidelines to Help You Locate Things Without Panicking
55(2)
My House Is a Pigsty!
57(16)
Barriers to Neatness and Organization
58(1)
Is All Clutter Bad?
59(2)
Action Steps to Get Organized
61(2)
Steps to De-Cluttering and Organizing Your Room
63(2)
Attacking a Pile of Papers
65(2)
Organizing Your Kitchen
67(2)
Tips for Maintaining a (Relatively) Neat Home
69(4)
No Matter How Hard I Try, I'm Always Late
73(24)
Poor Time Management Can Cause Multiple Problems
74(1)
Manage Attention to Manage Time
75(2)
Increase Time-Estimation Skills to Manage Time
77(3)
The Importance of Planning for Better Time Management
80(6)
Completing a Grant Proposal on Time
86(1)
Dealing with Common Time Wasters
87(7)
Perfectionism
94(1)
Plan on Improving Slowly
95(2)
I Have Things to Do, but I Don't Know Where to Begin
97(24)
Procrastination
98(1)
Overcoming Procrastination
99(4)
Planning a Trip
103(8)
How to Develop Checklists for Complex Tasks
111(1)
Giving a Dinner Party
112(5)
Making a Presentation at Work
117(3)
The Satisfaction of Getting Things Done
120(1)
People Get Irritated with Me and I Don't Know Why
121(20)
What Makes Them So Angry
123(3)
How to Read Cues from Other People
126(2)
Talk Less
128(1)
Listen Better
129(1)
Renegotiate Relationships
130(5)
Follow Through on Commitments
135(2)
Work to Become More Self-Aware
137(4)
PART III Looking Ahead to the Future
Medication: Should I? Shouldn't I?
141(10)
What Medication Can Do
142(1)
The Medication Decision
143(1)
Types of Medication
144(1)
Monitoring Your Medication
145(2)
Guidelines for Taking Medication
147(1)
Strategies for Keeping Track of Your Medication
147(1)
Reevaluating Medication
148(3)
Making Decisions and Setting Goals
151(20)
How ADD Affects Decision Making and Goal Setting
152(1)
Skills Required for Effective Decision Making and Goal Setting
153(3)
Problem-Solving Checklist
156(4)
Decision-Making Checklist
160(1)
Diagrams to Help You Solve Problems and Make Decisions
160(5)
Setting Goals
165(6)
Concluding Remarks 171(2)
Resources 173(8)
Index 181

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