David Nylund

Treating Huckleberry Finn

A New Narrative Approach to Working with Kids Diagnosed ADD/ADHD

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Produktbeschreibung

Treating Huckleberry Finn offers a drug-free alternative to treating rambunctious children. Author David Nylund's SMART approach is a five-step strategy to understanding, nourishing, and learning to control the millions of youngsters who have been unfairly branded with the diagnoses of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780787961206
• ISBN-10: 0787961205
• Artikelnr.: 10536952

Autorenporträt

DAVID NYLUND is a licensed clinical social worker at Kaiser Permanente in Stockton, California, and a clinical supervisor at La Familia Counseling Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword ix
Preface xiii
Part 1 The Critique
1. Introduction: Huck Finn Meets Dr. Chad Geigy 3
2. Weird Science: Debunking the ADHD Diagnosis 13
Part 2 The Solution
3. The SMART Approach: An Overview 43
4. Step One: Separating the Problem of ADHD from the Child 69
5. Step Two: Mapping the Influence of ADHD on the Child and Family 87
6. Step Three: Attending to Exceptions to the ADHD Story 107
7. Step Four: Reclaiming Special Abilities of Children Diagnosed with ADHD
129
8. Step Five: Telling and Celebrating the New Story 153
9. Putting It All Together: SMART Therapy from Beginning to End 175
10. Huck at School: SMART Strategies in the Classroom 185
11. Huck Gets Smart: A Conversation Between Huck and David 209
Reading List 221
References 223
Index 228
The Author 234

Rezensionen

"...will be of great interest to parents and teachers..." (www. Family 2000, 4 September 2002)