ADD and Relationships Articles
ADHD
and Relationships: Communication is the Key!
Two therapists talk about how ADD can affect relationships
and give some practical suggestions to increase effective
communication.
Fatherhood
and ADHD
By Patrick J. Kilcarr, Ph.D and Patricia O. Quinn, M.D. Talks
about how to understand raise and discipline your child with
ADD.
How
Untreated ADHD Can Affect Our Relationships
By Gina Pera. This list of most-problematic "hot spots"—again,
primarily found among those refusing diagnosis and treatment—is
not for the faint of heart.
How
Adult ADHD Affects Relationships: Strategies for Coping
By Melinda White. She talks about the different ways ADHD
can impact relationships and lists several strategies to cope
with it.
ParentCop
vs. ParentCoach: Repairing The Tear In Parenting Styles
By Dr. Steven Richfield. Talks about a different way to parent.
"Parentcops are too quick to haul kids in for questioning,
sentencing, and punishing. Yelling, idle threats of very serious
consequences, and other intimidation tactics also fall within
the reactionary repertoire of parentcops. But interestingly,
I've found that too much of the parentcop approach usually
backfires: it actually produces more rule breaking on the
part of kids because of the reservoir of anger that policing
leaves inside of them."
For Children Who Have ADHD, The Parents Are 24 Times More
Likely To Have ADHD Themselves During Childhood
Treatments for children with ADHD rely heavily on the help
and support of the parents, so the problems of those parents
can interfere with the improvement of the children. "Parents
are really critical in terms of delivering treatments to their
children," says Chronis. "When parents are feeling
ineffective as parents or when they're experiencing depression,
children respond less optimally to treatment. As the child
is more challenging, the parent tends to feel less capable
and less effective. They're less able to implement the types
of constraints that would make the child most successful in
their environment, and so the child then acts out and escalates
their behavior, which leads the parent to feel more and more
ineffective.
Relationship
Issues for Adults with ADHD
By Robert M. Tudisco. An ADD male living whose been married
for nearly eleven years to "the most NON of the non-AD/HD
spouses" talks about some of the issues ADDers may face.
Tips
On ADD in Couples
By Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D. As the
title sounds.
10
Dirty Words
The dirtiest words we use in our daily vocabulary and thought
processes aren’t necessarily four letter words.
The
words themselves are not 'dirty'. Rather it is the context
in which we misuse them to negate ourselves or others, avoid
commitments, or create win-lose situations.
The following ten dirty words interfere with successful communication,
motivation, and personal success.
Solutions
for Intimacy Problems for Adults with ADHD
By Richard B. Austin, Jr., Ph.D. The following three communication
problems will be addressed: (1) not listening, (2) interrupting,
and (3) not keeping promises. Probably the single most important
issue to address is active, careful listening with a feedback
loop to make sure the listener "gets" the speaker's
message.
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