Books on ADHD: Recommendations from a Licensed Psychologist for Parents, Kids, and Adults with ADHD
Below are the top book recommendations made by our Licensed Psychologists.
All of the books we share are evidence-based books that we have read, tested and fully support.
Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents
This book is a great resource for parents who want to learn more about about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment. This book teaches parents to understand why kids with ADHD act the way they do, get an accurate diagnosis, work with school and health care professionals to find needed support, implement a proven eight-step behavior management plan, build your child's academic and social skills and restore harmony at home. Click here to learn more!
ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood
This book will help you minimize the downside and maximize the benefits of ADHD at any age. It offers an arsenal of new strategies and lifestyle hacks for thriving with ADHD including tips for establishing and maintaining positive connection, “the other Vitamin C” and the best antidote to the negativity that plagues so many people with ADHD. As inspiring as it is practical, ADHD 2.0 will help you find the key that unlocks you or your child’s potential. Click here to learn more!
Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning
This book offers information, assessments, and evidence-based exercises to help you build a mental skill set and take control of your ADHD. Make real, sustainable changes with practical guidance and activities for sharpening your memory and attention, learning to plan and organize, strengthening your mental flexibility, enhancing your emotional regulation, improving your impulse control, and living your best life. Click here to learn more!
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Another excellent book for individuals with ADHD throughout the lifespan, this book helps dispel common myths, offer helpful coping tools, and give a thorough accounting of all treatment options as well as tips for dealing with a diagnosed child, partner, or family member. But most importantly, focuses on the positives that can come with this “disorder”—including high energy, intuitiveness, creativity, and enthusiasm. Click here to learn more!
Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
It can be frustrating watching your extremely bright child struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. At TPP, we work with “smart but scattered” children every day and we have great news for you: there’s a lot you can do to help. Learn easy-to-follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines. Small changes can add up to big improvements--this empowering book shows how. Click here to learn more!
The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Executive Functioning Disorder
This book is recommended for parents who want to learn what executive function difficulties look like and how you can help your child overcome these challenges. Being organized. Staying focused. Controlling impulses and emotions. This book is your step-by-step handbook for helping your child concentrate, learn, and thrive! Click here to learn more.
Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD: Building Skills and Motivation
This book presents an innovative, tested approach to helping teens overcome the frustrating organizational and motivation problems associated with executive function deficits and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The Supporting Teens' Autonomy Daily (STAND) approach uses motivational interviewing (MI) to engage teens and their parents in building key compensatory skills in organization, time management, and planning. Parent training components ease family conflict and equip parents to support kids' independence. Click here to learn more!
Organizational Skills Training for Children with ADHD: An Empirically Supported Treatment
This high recommended book presents an easy-to-implement intervention with proven effectiveness for children with ADHD in grades 3 to 5. Organizational skills training helps kids develop essential skill sets for organizing school materials, tracking assignments, and completing homework and other tasks successfully. It’s an evidence-based treatment parents can easily implement with their child at home. Click here to learn more!
Looking for Additional Support?
While these books offer valuable insights for managing ADHD in both children and adults, they may not cover every unique circumstance or challenge your family encounters. Tampa Pediatric Psychology specializes in child ADHD in Tampa. We provide comprehensive ADHD evaluations to assess attention, behavior, and executive functioning, as well as personalized treatment plans and referrals to appropriate providers and resources. We provide evidence-based therapies like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and parent training to help manage ADHD symptoms as well as ADHD coaching for high school and college students, which helps teens and young adults develop strategies to improve their organization skills, time management, and academic performance. Our approach is holistic, addressing both the child’s needs and family dynamics.
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