THE GIFT OF ADHD: HOW TO TRANSFORM YOUR CHILD'S PROBLEMS INTO STRENGTHS. This book is a must read if you or anyone you know has been given the diagnosis of ADHD. It is also a must-read for teachers and health care providers. It offers a radical new vision for seeing ADHD as a gift! This book does not just offer more information on ADHD, it offers a new vision that will transform you and your families life. As a parent, you have an enormous amount of power to heal your child. Who This Book is For and How It’s Different This book is intended for parents of children ages 6-12 who have been diagnosed with ADHD by a trained professional. This book is for parents who are interested in transforming not only their child’s symptoms, but their own vision of what ADHD means. This book is also a must-read for the following groups of people: : Adults diagnosed with ADHD : Teachers at every level, from kindergarten to graduate level : Psychologists : Psychiatrists : Pediatricians : Any mental health provider : Any Parent who has an imperfect kid - The book offers lots of exercises for accepting yourself as a parent if your child has any flaws and you have any tendency to blame yourself. Even if you are a parent who found yourself relieved that your child was diagnosed with ADHD because it finally seemed to offer an answer to many of your questions about your child’s behavior, this book will be helpful to you. Even if you are glad that your child has a diagnosis, this book can help because it agrees that what gets diagnosed as ADHD is a very real difference. Your child is different from other children in predictable ways. This book will help you to see that while your child’s differences pose many challenges they also offer many gifts. So whether you were happy, relieved, distressed or distraught when your child was diagnosed with ADHD, this book will guide you to help transform your vision of your child, your relationship with your child and his symptoms. This book is also different because it recognizes that the treatment plan has to match the difference that your child exhibits. Many books for helping children and parents with ADHD offer very complicated, labor intensive exercises for parents and children to do. These are not so helpful because children and sometimes parents have difficulty completing and following through with lengthy complicated forms and long-drawn out exercises. The exercises in the book are designed to cater to your child’s differences. They will use his gift for wanting concrete sensory engagement rather than abstract theorizing as a strategy for learning new information. Also, many of the exercises ask you to build on areas of specialized interest that your child already has a lot of energy for – whether it be Harry Potter or Barry Bonds. You will help your child channel his existing energy for special interests into pretend games to transform his symptoms. As you go through the book, you will find that there are more than enough exercises throughout the book to help transform your child’s problems into strengths. If you or your child don’t like some of the exercises, you don’t have to push it. Just move on to another exercise. The best strategy will be to find a handful of the exercises that your child enjoys so much it feels like you and he are playing and to use those exercises over time. You can think of these as like going to the gym to build muscles. The more skills she learns in how to manage her thoughts, behaviors and sense of self-worth, the more powerfully will you see her transform. You will also find that these exercises are not just another thing to do that pits you and your child against each other. Rather they will be fun things for you and your child to share in and to build your relationship and closeness with each other. Gift of ADHD Workshops Learn how to transform ADHD symptoms into strengths and quick fixes for big problems including disciplined daydreaming, translating complaints into contributions and the power of asking "What went right?" Discover the 5 gifts of ADHD and see why this new approach exploded onto the scene with features in Newsweek, Wall Street Journal and many others. Free Workshops on The Gift of ADHD The Elephant Pharmacy dates and times San Rafael Location - Saturday Aug 25, 11:00-12:30 pm Berkeley Location - Saturday, Aug 25, 2:30-4:00 pm Los Altos Location - Saturday, Aug 18, 1-2:30pm Walnut Creek Location - Saturday, Sept 1, 2:30-4pm The Gift of ADHD Full Day Workshops $179.00 August 21 Kimberly WI August 22 Madison WI Aug 23 Brookfield WI September 26-28 Seattle Nov 4-6 Las Vegas Call 1-800-843-7763 to register or go to www.pesi.com   Click Here to Read an Interview with Dr. Honos-Webb about The Gift of ADHD Click Here to hear interview with Dr. Honos-Webb on the Gift of ADHD Click Here to read chapter 5 of the Gift of ADHD on creativitiy I have just started a Blog on How to Celebrate ADHD where you can join a discussion with other nationally known authors on ADHD and the education system - Click Here - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Parenting & Childcare THE GIFT OF ADHD: How to Transform your Child's Problems into Strengths Lara Honos-Webb. New Harbinger, $14.95 paper (200p) ISBN-1-57224-389-9 A diagnosis of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) does more than label a child's behavior problems-it affects his or her self-esteem, relationships and future, says psychologist Honos-Webb. The way parents and teachers treat an ADHD child can mean the difference between a successful life and an unnecessarily difficult one. In this sensitive exploration of ADHD, Honos-Webb uses case studies, field research and her personal experience as a clinical psychologist and sister of a brother with ADHD to teach parents how to become advocates for their children and "reframe" their view of the disorder. While most people are familiar with the dramatic behavioral symptoms of ADHD-severe inattention and impulsiveness-there is a less-reported flip side: children with ADHD exhibit exceptional strengths that Honos-Webb sees as opportunities. These gifts include emotional sensitivity toward others, passion and exuberance, unusual problem-solving skills and a love of nature. Honos-Webb's goal is to bring these traits to light and help parents transform "symptoms into talents-or at the least, lovable eccentricities." Through interactive exercises, such as directed daydreaming and storytelling, she helps parents and children work together to rise above the negativity so often directed at them by "an outdated education system" that does little to accept and support children with ADHD. This unique book stands out from the sea of books in its field. (Mar.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Endorsements for The Gift of ADHD "Insightful, practical, and transformational. Honos-Webb has written a great book!" --Thom Hartmann, author of Attention Deficit Disorder, Healing ADD, and the Edison Gene “You are the parent. If you can change and do what this wonderful book invites you to change and do, then you can give the most precious gift to your child—transforming your child's “problem” into a strength. Please accept the gift of this book—for your child's sake.” --Alvin R. Mahrer, Ph.D., professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and author of The Complete Guide to Experiential Psychotherapy “Honos-Webb grabbed my scattered attention quickly and held it with this enlightening book, without resorting to drugs. I nervously jumped to sections such as “The Medical Model of Disease” and “Why Medications May Not Be the Answer,” and found them balanced and enlightening. Then I calmed down, read the rest, and learned a lot. You will too...if you can pay attention.” --Thomas Greening, professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School and editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology Dr. Honos-Webb's book is a healing gift to children with ADHD, their parents, teachers, psychologists, and doctors. Taken to heart, her message could transform the lives of these children, their families, and even the educational system. The Gift of ADHD is a must-read for anyone whose life is touched by the unique children who are given this diagnosis. Even adultswith thisdiagnosis should read this book to find a radically new way of understandingthemselves and celebrating their own gifts. --Lane Arye, Ph.D., author of Unintentional Music: Releasing Your Deepest Creativity. “This is an important book. It challenges the prevailing dogma that ADHD is a disorder. In so doing it calls upon us to focus more on the strengths of the children that get this diagnosis. I am personally convinced that children who get this diagnosis indeed have the strengths that Honos-Webb identifies, and that by overly focusing on the difficulties these children have we do them a great disservice. All of us have our strengths and weaknesses. I strongly support the message of hope this book brings. I think parents with children who have been diagnosed ADHD will find much in this book that will help de-stigmatize their children and will help them understand and prize their children’s strengths, while working with them to cope with the problems that have led them to get this diagnosis. This is an important book regardless of whether one believes in the medical model view of ADHD as a disorder or not.” —Arthur C. Bohart, Ph.D., professor of psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, coauthor of How Clients Make Therapy Work and coeditor of Empathy Reconsidered Click Here to Read an Interview with Dr. Honos-Webb about The Gift of ADHD Click Here for article featuring The Gift of ADHD" Click Here for The Wall Street Journal Article Click Here to see national media featuring The Gift of ADHD "What If Einstein Had Taken Ritalin? ADHD's Impact on Creativity" February 3, 2005 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Contra Costa Times Article: "Lara Honos-Webb, a Walnut Creek therapist and Santa Clara University psychology professor, is trying to change all that with a controversial new book, "The Gift of ADHD." The book challenges parents and the public to change the way we look at the condition. She urges parents to "go from seeing your child as having a deficit disorder to having a unique gift." Through a series of activities and what Honos-Webb calls engaged parenting, children's ADHD can be managed and some of the behaviors that are disruptive can be turned into strengths, she says. For instance, that tendency to daydream is actually a sign of intense creativity, and parents should help foster that. The fact that ADHD is labeled a "deficit" and "disorder" tells kids that something is wrong with them, Honos-Webb says. "It's heartbreaking to send that message to kids when actually, they have tremendous gifts." While most experts agree that many children diagnosed with having ADHD are extremely bright, Honos-Webb's philosophy goes a bit further: She frowns on the use of medication to treat ADHD, claiming that it often interferes with a child's ability to tap into his strengths." Posted on Tue, May. 24, 2005 http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/entertainment/books/11723882.htm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr Lara Honos-Webb lara@visionarysoul.com 925-639-7376 Home | The Gift of ADHD | Press Room | Articles | Free Download Keynotes-Seminars-Workshops | Meet Dr. Lara | Individual Sessions   Visionary Soul Newsletter Enter your email to join Visionary Soul Newsletter today!   HTML Text AOL Click here for newsletter archives   © Copyright  Visionary Soul 2007. All Rights Reserved
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