Distant Drums, Different Drummers: A Guide for Young People With Adhd - Softcover

Ingersoll, Barbara D.

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9780964854802: Distant Drums, Different Drummers: A Guide for Young People With Adhd

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ISBN 10: 0964854805 ISBN 13: 9780964854802

Publisher: Cape Pubns, 1995

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Do people with ADHD have a "deficit" and a "disorder"? Or are they just different in some ways from people around them? In Distant Drums, Different Drummers, Barbara Ingersoll presents a more positive perspective on ADHD - one that stresses the value of individual differences. From this perspective, ADHD is a set of traits that has been passed from generation to generation because these traits were important for the survival of human beings over many thousands of years. The child with ADHD, with his penchant for novelty and exploration, his boundless energy, and his tendency to take risks, is seen as the descendant of a long line of adventurers and explorers stretching far back beyond the beginnings of recorded history. This view offers children and adolescents struggling with ADHD the opportunity to see themselves in a positive light and motivates them to face challenging problems. Distant Drums, Different Drummers is a "must read" for youngsters who have ADHD and for the paren

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"I know Dr. Barbara Ingersoll to be a superb, devoted clinician -- sensitive, empathic, truthful, and a profoundly creative thinker. Years before I met her and worked with her, I was recommending her book 'Your Hyperactive Child' to parents of my patients as the best book of its type. DISTANT DRUMS, DIFFERENT DRUMMERS is written for those same parents and for young people themselves. It is designed not only to help them understand their ADHD, but to destigmatize their differences and offer suggestions for how to deal with them. It should be read by all children with ADHD and their parents as a beginning antidote to the self-esteem problems that so often tragically complicate their lives."

Harold I. Eist, M.D., Past President, American Psychiatric Association

About the Author:

Barbara Ingersoll, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who has worked with children with attentional, behavioral, and learning problems for 30 years. She served on the professional advisory board of CH.A.D.D. (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders) and was inducted into the CH.A.D.D. Hall of Fame in 1997 for her outstanding contributions to the welfare of individuals with ADHD. Dr. Ingersoll is the author of several books on ADHD, including YOUR HYPERACTIVE CHILD (Doubleday, 1988) and DAREDEVILS AND DAYDREAMERS (Doubleday, 1998). With Dr. Sam Goldstein, she has written ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER AND LEARNING DISABILITIES (Doubleday, 1993). Dr. Ingersoll is in private practice in Bethesda, MD, where she also serves as the Clinical Director of Montgomery Child and Family Health Services.

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