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Recognizing and coping with attention deficit disorder from childhood through adulthood. Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients, both adults and children, the authors show the varied forms ADD takes--from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of...

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Main Author: Hallowell, Edward M.
Other Authors: Ratey, John J., 1948-
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 1995.
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Summary:Recognizing and coping with attention deficit disorder from childhood through adulthood. Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients, both adults and children, the authors show the varied forms ADD takes--from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming--and the transforming impact of the precise diagnosis and treatment.
Item Description:"Recognizing and coping with attention deficit disorder from childhood through adulthood."--Container.
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Physical Description:2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:02:00:00
ISBN:0743529006
9780743529006
Author Notes:Edward M. Hallowell, a child and adult psychiatrist as well as an author and lecturer, is a graduate of Harvard College, Tulane Medical School, and a Harvard Residency Program in Adult and Child Psychiatry. In addition to his private psychiatry practice in Cambridge, Mass., and his teaching career at Harvard Medical School, Hallowell is the founder and director of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health. The Center specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cognitive and emotional problems in both children and adults.

As an author, Hallowell has written two best-selling books on Attention Deficit Disorder: Driven to Distraction and Answers to Distraction. He has also written the comprehensive books When You Worry About The Child You Love and Worry: Controlling It and Using It Wisely.

Hallowell, who is married and has three children, lives in Massachusetts

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