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Subtitle: Understanding and Helping Adopted and Looked After Children with Attention Difficulties
By: Randy Lee Comfort
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780429479793
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychanalyse
Description: "A practical, supportive book for adoptive parents, carers, teachers and other professionals who live and work with families and children whose happiness and behaviours are affected by attention difficulties and hyperactivity. The examples of real children and adults in everyday situations translate research findings into meaningful strategies for helping families, teachers and children to find more successful means of managing difficult behaviours and emotions."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE The adopted/looked after child with attention difficulties; CHAPTER TWO Understanding the effects of maltreatment on early brain development and the consequences for ADHD/ADD and adopted/looked after children; CHAPTER THREE The ADHD/ADD adopted/looked after child at home and in the community; CHAPTER FOUR The ADHD/ADD adopted/looked after child at school; CHAPTER FIVE Social development in the ADHD/ADD adopted/looked after child; CHAPTER SIX Conclusions; title: APPENDIX I Characteristics of Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) DisorderAPPENDIX II ADHD/ADD adults who areadopted or who grew up in care; APPENDIX III Helpful suggestions for teachers and parents/carers; APPENDIX IV Resources; REFERENCES; INDEX