ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know - Paperback

by American Academy of Pediatrics (Author), Mark L. Wolraich MD Faap (Author), Joseph F. Hagan Jr. MD Faap (Author)

Fully updated with the latest AAP recommendations, this award-winning guide offers parents balanced, reassuring information to help them manage this condition. Topics include: evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions, behavior therapy, ADHD and academics, the role of medication, and complementary and alternative treatments. Parents will also find inspirational and relatable stories from other caretakers.

Author Biography

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 67,000 pediatricians. Joseph F. Hagan, Jr., MD, FAAP, is a clinical professor of pediatrics at The Robert Larner, MD College of Medicine at the University of Vermont and UVM Children's Hospital. Mark L. Wolraich, MD, FAAP, is the Shaun Walters Professor of Pediatrics, Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor, and chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.