Searching to be Found: Understanding and Helping Adopted and Looked After Children with Attention Difficulties

Searching to be Found: Understanding and Helping Adopted and Looked After Children with Attention Difficulties

by Randy Lee Comfort
Searching to be Found: Understanding and Helping Adopted and Looked After Children with Attention Difficulties

Searching to be Found: Understanding and Helping Adopted and Looked After Children with Attention Difficulties

by Randy Lee Comfort

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Overview

A practical, supportive book for adoptive parents, carers, teachers and other professionals who live and work with families and children whose happiness and behaviours are affected by attention difficulties and hyperactivity. The examples of real children and adults in everyday situations translate research findings into meaningful strategies for helping families, teachers and children to find more successful means of managing difficult behaviours and emotions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781855754645
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/04/2008
Pages: 204
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Randy Lee Comfort obtained a Doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Denver. She has worked for over 35 years in the fields of family counselling, learning disorders, and adoption and fostering and is the mother of both biological and adopted children. She moved to Bristol, England, where, in 1998, she opened Our Place: a Centre for Families who Foster and Adopt. In addition to running Our Place, she continues to lecture internationally on the topics of learning disorders and adoption/fostering. She is the author of The Unconventional Child, Teaching the Unconventional Child, The Child Care Catalog, numerous journal articles, and chapters in edited books. Since the late 1980s, she has taught teachers and social workers about attention deficit disorders, adoption/fostering issues, and social dysfunctions.

Table of Contents

Preface — The adopted/looked after child with attention difficulties — Understanding the effects of maltreatment on early brain development and the consequences for ADHD/ADD and adopted/looked after children — The ADHD/ADD adopted/looked after child at home and in the community — The ADHD/ADD adopted/looked after child at school — Social development in the ADHD/ADD adopted/looked after child — Conclusions — Characteristics of Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder — ADHD/ADD adults who are adopted or who grew up in care — Helpful suggestions for teachers and parents/carers
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