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#46 for Internationally Adopting Parents
February 1, 2007
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Mark Lakewood
Bullying Prevention Skills and Techniques for Children
As a society, we spend too much of our energy identifying and punishing the bully that we fail to spend enough time empowering the victims of bullying. We should spend more of our energy on the things that we can control rather than the things we have limited or no control over.
How To Treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
The symptoms of ADD and ADHD are widely varied, so make sure you determine that the disorder really is ADD/ADHD. Professionals are too quick to make this diagnosis and prescribe drugs to treat it, when the best answer could be as simple as a change in diet.
Educational issues in children adopted from overseas orphanages
Spence-Chapin (Manhattan, NY)
Identifying and Addressing School-related Issues in Internationally Adopted Older Children
Jewish Family Services (Greenwich, CT)
ADD/ADHD Revisited
ADHD and Adoption....
I have heard that Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is more common among adoptive children than the general population. Is this true? And, if so, why?
What is ADHD and How Do You Manage it?
There are some children who suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). What are the symptoms and how is ADHD Managed?
What to do when kids go off their meds: brain-based learning strategies for ADD/ADHD
Brain-based learning strategies for helping hyperactive kids. Teacher resources and parenting tips to help control ADD when kids stop taking stimulant drugs. A likely scenario given the recent publicity about heart-related problems linked to Ritalin.
ADHD or Hyperarousal? Hyperactivity in Traumatized and Adopted Children
Why is it that so many adopted children are diagnosed with ADHD? Debbie, an adoptive parent and counsellor, explains how trauma related to adoption can affect the brain in a way which causes hyperactivity. She outlines briefly some useful parenting strategies for these hyperaroused children.
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