Beyond ADHD: Overcoming the Label and Thriving

Jeff Emmerson; Robert Yehling

doi:10.5771/9781442275119

Summary

Beyond ADHD weaves Emmerson’s personal story of his ADHD diagnosis, exploring along the way the latest medical, scientific and societal explanations and tools for managing and living with the condition. Including interviews with a number of experts at the forefront of next-generation ADHD diagnostics and treatment, he questions the cookie-cutter way ADHD is commonly diagnosed and treated. Suggesting that the list of symptoms often used to identify ADHD can be attributed to many other disorders and conditions, he explores how and why ADHD diagnoses have increased by 50% in the last ten years.

Emmerson advocates a different approach to ADHD, arguing that it should be a diagnosis of exclusion rather than the other way around, and that we must look past the label, recognizing that individual symptoms vary and treatment plans should be better tailored to the individual. He examines mental and behavioral issues from all sides, including the possibility that nurturing – rather than trying to alter or suppress – the active, “360-degree” mind is a viable way for those diagnosed with ADHD to realize their gifts and lead purposeful lives.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2017
Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-7510-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-7511-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 264
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Jeff’s Thank-Yous No access
1. 1 A New Doctor’s Office No access
2. 2 Peeking Behind the ADHD Curtain No access
3. 3 Optimal Health, Interrupted No access
4. 4 Optimal Health, Interrupted No access
5. 5 So Easy to Diagnose, So Tricky to Understand No access
6. 6 Why Personal History Matters in Diagnosing No access
7. 7 The Larger Problem of Misdiagnosis No access
8. 8 Prescribing in an Open Ocean No access
9. 9 What We’re Up Against No access
10. 10 The ADHD Buy-In No access
11. 11 What About Our Boys? No access
1. 12 What Is with My Brain? No access
2. 13 Exploring the Deeper Causes No access
3. 14 New Ways of Working with ADHD No access
4. 15 Toward Collaborative Diagnosing and Care No access
5. 16 Problem Child or Gifted Child No access
6. 17 Nutrition’s Necessary Place No access
7. 18 Shaking Off the Label No access
8. 19 The World Beyond ADHD No access
Notes No access Pages 233 - 254
Bibliography No access Pages 255 - 256
Index No access Pages 257 - 262
About the Authors No access Pages 263 - 264