ADHD/ADD > Pre-Teen/Teen

Revised & Updated Edition. Write it Down, Get it Done. A large-format academic planner that has helped thousands of students in grades 6–12. It provides an all-in-one resource for keeping track of assignments and due dates while developing the crucial executive skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. Students are given the tools to get organized, stay on track, manage their time, learn study strategies, create daily/weekly study plans, and much more!

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A Playbook for Teens and Young Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder If you’re a teen with ADHD, you care about academic and social success just as much as your peers do, but you may also experience difficulties keeping up in school and maintaining good relationships with friends and family. In addition, you probably find it challenging to stay organized, articulate your struggles to others, and cope with overwhelming pressure—especially as college approaches. This workbook will give you solid skills for addressing the challenges of ADHD so you can live up to your true potential. In this book, you’ll learn powerful and proven-effective cognitive behavioral strategies for coping with overwhelm, staying organized, tackling assignments, preparing for exams, dealing with emotions, communicating effectively with adults, and maintaining strong friendships.

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How They Feel and Why They Do What They Do. In this expanded and updated book, Kathleen Nadeau, Ellen Littman, and Patricia Quinn rise to the occasion and deliver a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable book that illuminates the complexity of ADHD in girls and women, both across the lifespan and across multiple domains of life (e.g., home, school, the workplace, close relationships). Blending clinical examples, case material, and a masterful synthesis of research findings around the world, the authors reveal the roots of ADHD in females during the preschool years, also summarizing relevant causal factors, and display the highly individualized journeys through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood that these girls and women face. The book's latter chapters make use of the information on ADHD and development and provide a synthesis of the kinds of treatment strategies needed to intervene with the complex issues faced by girls and families who struggle with ADHD.

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Build focus, organization skills, and self-confidence ― the ADHD workbook for teens ages 12 to 17. Does it feel hard to stay organized sometimes? Do homework assignments sneak up on you? Having ADHD can feel overwhelming ― but it doesn’t have to. This workbook gives you the tools to understand how ADHD works within your body, and actionable ways that you can use it to your advantage. Learn about some of your untapped strengths and see how you can channel your newly identified talents at school, in sports, and with friends.

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This book provides friendly, entertaining help for kids, who want to manage their tasks, time, and stuff, without going overboard or being totally obsessed. It empowers kids to conquer clutter, prioritize tasks, master their devices (not the other way around), supercharge study skills, handle homework, and prepare for tests, stop procrastinating and start enjoying less stress and more success. Updates include modern organization solutions such as electronic calendars, how to avoid device distractions and online resources. Revised and updated.

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ADHD can impact your life in many ways. This positive, self-affirming guide will increase your knowledge about ADHD and empower you in your daily life. The chapters are full of tips, tricks and life hacks so you can better manage your time, harness your creativity, energy and enthusiasm, and make more time for fun! Reflection activities and quizzes will help you better understand yourself and learn strategies on how to manage the intense emotions of rejection sensitivity. You'll learn the fundamentals of great self-care and how to look forward to life beyond school.

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The Ultimate Guide for Teens with ADHD This is is the ultimate handbook for teens with ADHD to help them take control of their disorder and find success in school and in life. By creating the "ADHD Action Plan" discussed in the book, readers will recognize how ADHD affects them, discover coping strategies and technology tools to improve their focus, and develop a self-advocacy plan they can use immediately. The book presents the latest research and information on ADHD in a conversational style that teens can understand easily, allowing them to develop a better understanding of their disorder.

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Tools to Help Teens Improve Focus, Stay Organized, and Reach Their Goals All teens need a little extra help staying focused-in school and in life. This is especially true if you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing disorders, a mood disorder, or have experienced traumatic brain injury. The good news is that there are skills you can learn to help you stay on track. In this friendly guide, psychologist and ADHD expert offers six powerful "super skills" to help you pay attention, increase productivity, and get organized so you can achieve your goals and live your best life.

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ADHD in Adolescents & Adults A practical guide on how to live with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder for adolescents and adults. Relying on the latest research in the field, this book is an indispensable guide to better cope with ADHD. This guide is a treasure trove of tips and tricks to develop effective adaptive strategies to deal with day-to-day challenges. This edition has been updated and improved to meet the needs of today's readers. Scientific information is based on data most recent research. Tips and strategies to better cope with ADHD are accompanied state-of-the-art advice, particularly on subjects such as lifestyle, time management, space and emotions.

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Build Executive Functioning Skills, Increase Motivation, and Improve Self-Confidence  A powerful and compassionate guide for cultivating self-confidence, independence, and the executive functioning skills you need to live your best life! This unique guide will help you develop the skills you need to strengthen your executive functioning, foster the self-compassion essential to overcoming self-criticism often caused by ADHD, and gain the confidence and resilience necessary to take control of your ADHD and your life. You'll also learn how to manage your emotions, focus, practice flexible problem solving, change habits, and improve communication skills. Finally, you'll learn how these skills can improve your relationships with friends and family, and help you succeed in school and life! This book will allow you to step off the path of self-criticism, and guide you on the path toward self-compassion, self-confidence, and success.

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Button Pusher is a memoir-driven realistic graphic novel about Tyler, a child who is diagnosed with ADHD and has to discover for himself how to best manage it. Tyler's brain is different. Unlike his friends, he has a hard time paying attention in class. He acts out in goofy, over-the-top ways. Sometimes, he even does dangerous things-like cut up a bus seat with a pocketknife or hang out of an attic window. To the adults in his life, Tyler seems like a troublemaker. But he knows that he's not. Tyler is curious, creative, the best artist in his grade, and when he can focus, he gets great grades. For kids who don't want to cause trouble, but sometimes just feel they can't control their behavior, this is a great book to read..

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This book is written for 'tween' girls (ages 7-11) who have ADD/ADHD. It offers girls, their parents, and professionals practical tips and techniques for managing attention disorders and the many aspects of life that these disorders can affect. It was written in an engaging style that doesn't 'talk down' to girls. It is packed with useful and empowering lessons that are simple to apply. It was written by a developmental pediatrician who is a well-known author.

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Activities to Help You Gain Motivation and Confidence Presents a series of exercises and worksheets for young readers with attention-deficit disorder, describing how to identify individual strengths and interests and use these abilities to develop better ways to cope with the disorder.

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Understand your unique brain, maximize your strengths, and find the confidence to shine with this engaging workbook. If you're a teen girl with ADHD, or suspect you may be, you've likely experienced school and friendship challenges, fear of rejection, and intense emotions. These tips and tools can be used to overcome struggles and uncomplicate your life. Evidence-based tools help you understand your neuro-divergent brain, focus on strengths, self-advocate, and build self-confidence. Prioritize what really matters to you; Start advocating for yourself and discover your own social style. For Parents and Clinicians: The activities and exercises in this workbook are grounded in proven-effective therapies such as cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapy, mindfulness, life coaching, and self-compassion. Self-assessments can help improve executive functioning skills, self-soothing, sensitivity dysphoria (RSD), and other challenges of adolescence while living with ADHD. Ages 13 to 19.

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