Adolescents (age groups 12-20) with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are in risk for academics problems, strained associations, peer rejection, and unsafe behavior-and parents are often at a loss for how to handle these difficulties. If Your Adolescent Provides ADHD: AN IMPORTANT Source for Parents supplies the up-to-date details and down-to-earth support that parents need. It includes an in-depth take a look at causes, symptoms, analysis, treatment, and parenting strategies.

Contrary to that which was once believed, ADHD that starts previous in childhood usually persists into the teenage years. Yet actually experienced parents tend to be captured unawares by the new issues that adolescence provides. This book is among the few to address ADHD in the context of young friendships, dating, curfews, sports activities, and extracurricular actions. It also gives practical tips from a leading psychologist on determining readiness to operate a vehicle and instilling great homework and study habits.