Finding your focus
Book - 2006
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- Published
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New York :
McGraw-Hill
[2006]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- "Practical strategies for the everyday challenges facing adults with ADD"--Cover.
- Physical Description
- xv, 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780071453967
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Getting to Know Yourself
- 1. Understanding ADD
- Recognizing Symptoms
- Getting a Diagnosis: How to Tell If You Have ADD
- Some Treatment Options
- The Role of Attention
- ADD and Organizational Abilities
- How This Book Can Help You
- 2. Identifying Your Strengths and Weaknesses
- Identifying Your Strengths
- Understanding Your Weaknesses
- Distinguishing Between Helpful and Difficult Environments
- Identifying Strategies That Work for You
- Using Self-Awareness to Prevent Problems
- 3. Your Personal Tool Box
- Important Rules for Using the Tools
- Tool 1. Self-Talk
- Tool 2. Visualizing
- Tool 3. Hearing, Touching, Smelling, Tasting
- Tool 4. Routines
- Tool 5. Checklists
- Tool 6. Stop!
- Part II. Practical Strategies for Everyday Problems
- 4. Help, I Can't Find My Keys!
- Why You Keep Losing Things
- Preventing Items from Getting Lost
- How to Stop Losing Your Keys
- How to Stop Losing Your Glasses, Wallet, or Cell Phone
- How to Remember Where You Parked Your Car
- How to Stop Misplacing Your Money
- How to Stop Getting Lost
- When Something Is Already Lost: Finding Misplaced Items
- Guidelines to Help You Locate Things Without Panicking
- 5. My House Is a Pigsty!
- Barriers to Neatness and Organization
- Is All Clutter Bad?
- Action Steps to Get Organized
- Steps to De-Cluttering and Organizing Your Room
- Attacking a Pile of Papers
- Organizing Your Kitchen
- Tips for Maintaining a (Relatively) Neat Home
- 6. No Matter How Hard I Try, I'm Always Late
- Poor Time Management Can Cause Multiple Problems
- Manage Attention to Manage Time
- Increase Time-Estimation Skills to Manage Time
- The Importance of Planning for Better Time Management
- Completing a Grant Proposal on Time
- Dealing with Common Time Wasters
- Perfectionism
- Plan on Improving Slowly
- 7. I Have Things to Do, but I Don't Know Where to Begin
- Procrastination
- Overcoming Procrastination
- Planning a Trip
- How to Develop Checklists for Complex Tasks
- Giving a Dinner Party
- Making a Presentation at Work
- The Satisfaction of Getting Things Done
- 8. People Get Irritated with Me and I Don't Know Why
- What Makes Them So Angry
- How to Read Cues from Other People
- Talk Less
- Listen Better
- Renegotiate Relationships
- Follow Through on Commitments
- Work to Become More Self-Aware
- Part III. Looking Ahead to the Future
- 9. Medication: Should I? Shouldn't I?
- What Medication Can Do
- The Medication Decision
- Types of Medication
- Monitoring Your Medication
- Guidelines for Taking Medication
- Strategies for Keeping Track of Your Medication
- Reevaluating Medication
- 10. Making Decisions and Setting Goals
- How ADD Affects Decision Making and Goal Setting
- Skills Required for Effective Decision Making and Goal Setting
- Problem-Solving Checklist
- Decision-Making Checklist
- Diagrams to Help You Solve Problems and Make Decisions
- Setting Goals
- Concluding Remarks
- Resources
- Index