Making the Connection.Making the Connection Mohab Hanna, MD Ladner-Drysdale 2776 south Arlington Mill Drive, Arlington, VA 22206 0976066211 $79.95 www.adhdparents.com Written by child & adolescent psychiatrist psychiatrist /psy·chi·a·trist/ (si-ki´ah-trist) a physician who specializes in psychiatry. psy·chi·a·trist n. A physician who specializes in psychiatry. Mohab Hanna, MD, Making the Connection: A Parents Guide to Medication in AD/HD is a practical, plain-terms guide written especially for parents in search of answers for how to help their children with Attention Deficit Disorder attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (ADD or ADHD) formerly hyperactivity Behavioral syndrome in children, whose major symptoms are inattention and distractibility, restlessness, inability to sit still, and difficulty concentrating on one thing for any and/or hyperactivity hyperactivity, excessive physical activity of emotional or physiological origin, usually seen in young children; one of the components of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. . Making the Connection does not try to pressure the reader into using medication on AD/HD children; neither does it exhort against the use of medication. The goal here is be as informative as possible, and help parents make the difficult choice of whether and/or how much to medicate med·i·cate v. 1. To treat by medicine. 2. To tincture or permeate with a medicinal substance. . Both stimulant stimulant, any substance that causes an increase in activity in various parts of the nervous system or directly increases muscle activity. Cerebral, or psychic, stimulants act on the central nervous system and provide a temporary sense of alertness and well-being as and non-stimulant medications are covered, and the "Twenty-One Medication Rules Every Parent Needs to Know" are especially valuable. ("Rule #18: Closely note baseline sleep, appetite, and mood prior to initiating a medication trial.") A list of recommended websites and an index round out this absolute "must-have" for any parent of a child diagnosed with AD/HD. |
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