Recommended Reading List

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Title Recommended Audience

Out of the Fog: Treatment Options and Strategies for Adult Attention Deficit Disorder.
Kevin R. Murphy and Suzanne LeVert. (1995) ISBN # 0786880872. The time management tips and organizational skills surely could be helpful, and more helpful for the hyperactive type, than those who are strictly inattentive. Pluses are also that it delves into issues of alcohol abuse, which are lacking in strictly "strategies" books

Adult

ADD and Success.
Lynn Weiss, Ph.D. (1998) ISBN #0-87833-994-9. This book will guide you to understand and embrace your ADD characteristics, helping you lead a more enjoyable and productive life.

Adult

ADD in the Workplace: Choices, Changes, and Challenges.
Kathleen G. Nadeau, Ph.D. (1997) ISBN #0-87630-847-7. This guide focuses on adults living with ADD, and illustrates various ways to initiate and maintain the best possible work situation.

Adult

ADD-Friendly Ways To Organize Your Life.
Judith Kolberg, & Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D. (2002) ISBN #1-58391-358-0. This is a book that has ADD-Friendly advice with the ADDer in mind. This collaboration brings forth the best underlying understanding with the most effective and practical remedy from ADD experts in two important fields: professional organization and clinical psychology. Finally, it offers organizing advice that ranges from self-help to utilizing the help of non-professionals, to using professional assistance. Thus it permits the reader to decide where they are at personally in the organizing process, and what level of support will be most beneficial to their unique situation.

Adult

ADD Success Stories: A Guide to Fulfillment for Families with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Thom Hartmann. (1995) ISBN #1-887424-03-2. Real-life stories of people with attention deficit disorder who achieved success in school, at work, in marriages and relationships.

Adult

Adventures in Fast Forward: Life, Love, and Work for the ADD Adult.
Kathleen G. Nadeau, Ph.D. (1996) ISBN #0-87630-800-0. This resource is filled with important tools and tactics for self-care and success and includes many personal stories from others that tell how and why these approaches worked for them.

Adult

Answers to Distraction.
Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D. (1996) ISBN #055337821X.

Adult

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception.
Thom Hartmann. (1993) ISBN #1-887424-14-8. Thom Hartmann explains some of the positive characteristics sometimes associated with ADD and provides an explanation of the disorder that can help adults at home, work and in school.

Adult

Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults.
Lynn Weiss, Ph.D. (1997) ISBN #0-87833-979-5. ADD frequently persist into adulthood, affecting as much as 10 percent of the adult population. Only recently have adults begun to recognize the symptoms in themselves and in spouses or relatives.

Adult

Journeys Through ADDulthood.
Sari Solden (2002) ISBN #ISBN #0-8027-1376-9. Offers a wealth of wisdom, sound advice, reassuring experiences, and hope for adults with ADHD.

Adult

What Does Everybody Else Know That I Don’t? Social Skills Help for Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD).
Michele Novotni, Ph.D. (1999) ISBN #1-886941-34-3. Social skills help for ADD adults. Highly recommended.

Adult

You Mean I’m Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy?! A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo. (1996) ISBN #0684815311.

Adult

The Power of Resilience: Achieving Balance, Confidence, and Personal Strength in Your Life.
Robert Brooks, Ph.D. and Sam Goldstein, Ph.D. (2004) ISBN # 07-1391045. Describes how adults can develop a "resilient mindset.", while the word "resilient" is usually associated with people overcoming great adversity, daily stress often requires resilience.

Adult

 

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