Beyond Adhd - Overcoming the Label and Thriving

ADHD has become a common diagnosis among children, and is now being more frequently diagnosed in adults. Jeff Emmerson offers his story alongside expert accounts of what constitutes ADHD, the problems with current diagnosis strategies and definitions, alternative treatments, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in today's approaches to ADHD.

List of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE
1.In the Doctor's Office
2.Peeking Behind the ADHD Curtain
3.Optimal Health, Interrupted: Decoding ADHD (Part One)
4.Optimal Health, Interrupted: Decoding ADHD (Part Two)
5.So Easy to Diagnose, So Tricky to Understand
6.Why Personal History Matters in Diagnosing
7.The Larger Problem of Misdiagnosis
8.Prescribing in An Open Ocean
9.What We're Up Against
10.The ADHD Buy-In
11.What About Our Boys?

PART TWO
12.What Is With My Brain?
13.Exploring the Deeper Causes
14.New Ways of Working with ADHD
15.Towards Collaborative Diagnosing & Care
16.Problem Child? Or Gifted Child?
17.Nutrition's Necessary Place
18.Shaking off the Label
19.The World Beyond ADHD

About the author

By Jeff Emmerson and Robert Yehling

Summary

ADHD has become a common diagnosis among children, and is now being more frequently diagnosed in adults. Jeff Emmerson offers his story alongside expert accounts of what constitutes ADHD, the problems with current diagnosis strategies and definitions, alternative treatments, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in today’s approaches to ADHD.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Emmerson, Jeff Yehling Emmerson, Robert Yehling, Yehling Robert
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781442275102
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7510-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SELF-HELP / Mood Disorders / General, Psychology, Self-help & personal development, Popular psychology, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Abnormal psychology, Coping with illness & specific conditions