Summary
Contents
Subject index
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
Food for Thought
Food for Thought
- Changing the course of ADHD
- Working together to identify contributing factors
- Working together to support the child to cope with ADHD
- Support within school
- Support within the home
- Key points to remember
This book has reviewed the debate over whether ADHD is biological, psychosocial or bio-psychosocial with the findings from a research project which identifies the reality of living with the condition. Throughout the chapters we attempt to justify why ADHD needs to be understood as a bio-psychosocial condition, and why a multidisciplinary approach is needed to support children's educational and social development. Given that between 3 and 5 per cent of school-aged children and young people are affected by ADHD (NICE, 2000), it is imperative that teachers and parents ...
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