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:
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Adults diagnosed with ADHD |
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Teachers at every level, from kindergarten to graduate level |
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Psychologists |
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Psychiatrists |
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Pediatricians |
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Any mental health provider |
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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.
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
"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 adults with this diagnosis should read this book to find a
radically new way of understanding themselves and celebrating their own gifts."
Lane Arye, Ph.D., author of Unintentional Music: Releasing Your Deepest
Creativity.
“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