Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder What Can Teachers Do 3rd Edition by Geoff Kewley ISBN 0415492025 978-0415492027
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ISBN 10: 0415492025
ISBN 13: 978-0415492027
Author: Geoff Kewley
Packed full of no-nonsense advice and tips, this book will help you adopt the educational strategies and behaviour management approaches that are best suited to each individual child. It also explores the use of alternative treatments, such as psychological and psychiatric strategies, medication, counselling, coaching and changes to diet.
Children who have ADHD can often experience school failure, expulsion and emotional, behavioural and social problems. By demystifying the disorder and its coexisting conditions, this book will help you to understand and manage ADHD, enabling you to offer the children you teach a more positive future.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder What Can Teachers Do 3rd Table of contents:
1 What is ADHD?
Ways in which ADHD may be drawn to the teacher’s attention
Causes
Inattentiveness
Hyperactivity
Impulsiveness
Consideration of IQ: low intelligence and gifted/talented
Growing up with ADHD
Very young children with ADHD
Key features of ADHD in young children
ADHD in adolescence
Key features of ADHD in adolescence
Teaching adolescents with ADHD
ADHD in adults
2 Coexisting conditions
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Key features of children and adolescents with ODD
Conduct Disorder
Depression
Conditions that commonly coexist with ADHD
Other common problems
Bipolar disorder
Anxiety Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Sleep difficulties
Specific learning difficulties
Speech and language difficulties
Tics
Tourette’s Syndrome
Asperger’s Syndrome
Coordination problems
Substance abuse
Poor self-esteem
Poor social skills
Insatiability
Variability
Excessive dogmatism
Time management and organisational problems
Relationship difficulties
Demotivation
Problems with rules
Over-sensitivity
Vulnerability to stress
Short-term memory problems
Soiling and wetting
Physical symptoms
3 Assessment of children with ADHD
Who is involved in the assessment?
The family interview
Focus of the questions in the family interview
For older children
Medical examination
Educational psychology assessment
Quantitative EEG
Rating scales and information from schools
Reports from other professionals
What happens next?
Consequences of under-diagnosis of ADHD
Blaming a child’s behaviour on poor parenting
Progression of ADHD
Inappropriate school provision
4 Managing children with ADHD
Possible management options
Educational strategies
Behavourial strategies
Psychological or psychiatric strategies
Neurofeedback
Medication
Counselling
Coach/mentor
Alternative therapies
Changes to diet
Further details of medication management of ADHD
Risks and benefits
Who decides?
Aim of medication
Specific medications used to treat ADHD
Methylphenidate
Amphetamine based preparations
Atomoxetine
Additional medications
Dosage
Deciding whether or not to medicate
Getting the best results from medication
Side-effects of medication
What to expect from medical management
Successful medical management should lead to:
If there is no improvement
Medical management in specific situations
Teenagers
Children under six years of age
Children with ADD
ADHD and Asperger’s Syndrome
ADHD with severe Oppositional Defiant Disorder and/or Conduct Disorder, especially of early-onset (Disruptive Behavioural Disorder)
ADHD with associated anxiety, depression or obsessions
ADHD with coexisting manic depression (bipolar disorder)
ADHD with tics and/or Tourette’s Syndrome
ADHD with substance abuse and Conduct Disorder
Professionals and services for ADHD
Summary
5 Case studies
Case studies: ADHD and various symptom patterns
Case studies: ADHD and other conditions requiring further medication
6 What teachers can do
Common misconceptions about ADHD
ADHD is a disability
What type of school best suits a child with ADHD?
A whole-school approach
Teaching style
Teaching strategies for ADHD
Addressing coexisting features
Troubleshooting in the classroom
7 Other tips that teachers might find helpful
8 The long-term outlook
Positive features of ADHD
9 Concluding comments
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