"Fully updated with the latest AAP recommendations, this award-winning guide offers parents balanced, reassuring information to help them manage this condition. Topics include: evaluation and diagnosis, coexisting conditions, behavior therapy, ADHD and academics, the role of medication, and complementary and alternative treatments. Parents will also find inspirational and relatable stories from other caretakers."--provided by publisher.

Includes index.

Please note -- A note on gender -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. What is ADHD? -- Chapter 2. Does my child have ADHD? Evaluation and diagnosis -- Chapter 3. What should we do? Treatment options -- Chapter 4. The role of medications -- Chapter 5. Managing ADHD at home -- Chapter 6. Parent training in behavior management: parenting techniques that work -- Chapter 7. Your child at school -- Chapter 8. Advocating for your child and others -- Chapter 9. When is it not just ADHD: identifying coexisting conditions -- Chapter 10. Complementary and alternative treatments for ADHD -- Chapter 11. ADHD in adolescence -- Chapter 12. A look at your child's future -- Index.