Understanding and Supporting Children with ADHD: Strategies for Teachers, Parents and Other Professionals

by Lesley A Hughes, Paul W Cooper

Overview

Discover how to use effective interdisciplinary management strategies to deal with disruptive behaviors and channel children's positive characteristics in the classroom and at home

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412918619
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/31/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Cooper is Chair Professor of Special Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Educatiion, and Visiting Professor at the University of Malta. His former Professor of Education at the University of Leicester, and has held academic posts at Birmingham, Oxford and Cambridge Universities. His main interests are interventions for Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties and mental health in schools, and applications of the biopsychosocial approach to these issues. He is Vice president of the Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association; Founding co-Chair of the European network for Social Emotional Competence, and Co-editor of the International Journal of Emotional Education.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rationale and Overview
UNDERSTANDING AD/HD
Perspectives about AD/HD
Experience of Living with AD/HD
SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH AD/HD
Collaborative Working: For Teachers, Parents and Other Professionals
Educational Interventions
The Way Forward: Support In and Out of the Classroom
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

Editorial Reviews

"It there is a book that every teacher and parent should read, this is it! This is a superb manual for providing a positive experience at home and school for ADHA children."

The Effective School Report