Ritalin Is Not the Answer : A Drug-Free, Practical Program for Children Diagnosed with ADD or ADHD

by Stein, David B.

• ISBN13: 9780787945145
• ISBN10: 0787945145
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-12
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

At Last! A Healthy, Drug-Free Alternative to Ritalin Nearly one-tenth of all school-aged children in the United States are being coerced into taking mood-altering drugs with side effects that include insomnia, tearfulness, rebound irritability, personality change, nervousness, anorexia, nausea, dizziness, headaches, heart palpitations, and cardiac arrhythmia. These are the children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Ritalin Is Not the Answer confronts and challenges what has become common practice and teaches parents and educators a healthy, comprehensive behavioral program that really works as an alternative to the epidemic use of medication-without teaching children to use drugs in order to handle their behavioral and emotional problems.

Author Biography

DAVID B. STEIN, is a practicing clinical psychologist, associate professor of psychology at Longwood College, and father of two sons who were once placed on Ritalin. His research and writings center on the diagnosis and treatment of attentional, behavioral, and motivational problems in children. For over twenty-five years he has conducted workshops providing realistic, practical, and effective alternatives to Ritalin.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

1. What Are We Doing to Our Children?

2. Understanding the Myths of Attentional Disorders.

3. The Importance of Effective Parenting.

4. Beginning the Caregivers' Skills Program.

5. Improving Behaviors.

6. Punishment.

7. Beginning to Learn Discipline.

8. Using Time Out Correctly for the IA or HM Child.

9. Reinforcement Removal for Very Difficult Behaviors.

10. Improving School Performance.

11. Helping the IA or HM Child to Feel Better.

12. Ten Ways to Stop Creating an Attentional Disorder Child.