A father’s involvement in a child’s academic life can be very beneficial to a child with ADHD. Traditionally mothers have taken the responsibility of attending school events and joining the PTA, but a father’s role in the schooling of his child is important to a child’s healthy development. How can a father help? Here are steps …
Stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Adderall used to treat ADHD, diet pills, and medicines that contain methamphetamine are drugs that are being abused by teens to help them in their studies, cram for exams, and improve their grades. Younger people are most likely to start misusing prescribed stimulant drugs in their high school years …
Do you think that a nice walk on a nature trail or a game of baseball in a grassy field could help ease ADHD symptoms? Recent research led by Frances Kuo, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois suggests that such simple natural methods help increase focus in ADD patients. The idea to test the effects …
The phrase “conscious uncoupling” may be a relatively new term in most people’s vocabulary; however, the act of unconscious uncoupling itself is not such a new phenomenon. In more recent news – most particularly celebrity headlines, the term “conscious uncoupling” has been thrown around to describe the separating of partnerships between two people. The big …
“My wife is the Jekyll & Hyde of New York. She can go from lovely to livid in seconds. Sometimes I think our three-year-old has greater frustration tolerance than she does.” — Jack, New York. Jack’s wife has ADD/ADHD. The traditional view of ADD/ADHD as a problem of attention and focus has broadened in the …
Individual Therapy Individual therapy is a form of therapy in which the client is treated on a one-on-one session with a professional therapist. It is usually time-limited and focuses on specific goals you want to accomplish or problems you want to solve. Often these goals will be broken down into smaller achievable objectives that may …