Beyond ADHD: Overcoming the Label and Thriving - Couverture rigide

Emmerson, Jeff; Yehling, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1442275103 ISBN 13 : 9781442275102

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017

Synopsis

Beyond ADHD weaves Emmerson's personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify ADHD can be attributed to many other disorders and conditions, he explores how and why ADHD diagnoses have increased by 50% in the last ten years.

Emmerson advocates a different approach to ADHD, arguing that it should be a diagnosis of exclusion rather than the other way around, and that we must look past the label, recognizing that individual symptoms vary and treatment plans should be better tailored to the individual. He examines mental and behavioral issues from all sides, including the possibility that nurturing - rather than trying to alter or suppress - the active, "360-degree" mind is a viable way for those diagnosed with ADHD to realize their gifts and lead purposeful lives.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jeff Emmerson is a Canadian mental health author, Honours Bachelor of Indigenous Social Work student at Laurentian University and emerging researcher. He is co-author of Beyond ADHD: Overcoming the Label and Thriving, originally published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2017 and now part of Bloomsbury Academic. His developing research interests centre on mental health services and systems, including access, integrated youth services and hospital-to-community transitions, alongside forensic mental health, including justice-system contact, rehabilitation and developmental pathways toward persistent antisocial behaviour and serious violence. He currently contributes as a volunteer Research Assistant with the Margaret and Wallace McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto.

Robert Yehling is the author of ten books and ghostwriter of seven others, and is increasingly specializing in titles pertaining to mental health, behavioral and fitness issues. His most recent title, Just Add Water, the biography of autistic surfing great Clay Marzo (2015: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), has been nominated for the Dorothy Gray Children's Literature Award and an International Book Award. He also works with author Kevin Hines, whose Cracked, Not Broken (2013: Rowman-Littlefield) is revered worldwide for its discussion of bipolar disorder and suicide prevention. Yehling has also edited published titles on traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder and autism. Another book on which he provided direct author assistance, Home Sweet Anywhere by Lynn Martin (2014: Sourcebooks), was a bestseller. A professional journalist since 1976, Yehling was the recipient of the 2007 Independent Publishers Book Award for his title, Writes of Life: Using Personal Experiences in Everything You Write. He also has won national awards for his work in magazine journalism, online journalism, website editing, and a Bank of America Liberal Arts Award. Besides writing and editing, Yehling teaches cause-based writing and other topics at writers' conferences and workshops throughout the United States.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442275103
• ISBN 13: 9781442275102
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible