Teaching Life Skills to Children and Teens with ADHD

Vincent J. Monastra, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and director of the FPI Attention Disorders Clinic in Endicott, New York. During the past 25 years, he has conducted a series of studies involving thousands of individuals with disorders of attention and behavioral control. He is the coinventor of a quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) process that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in the diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a pioneer in the development of parenting and EEG-based attention training procedures, and the author of numerous scientific articles and book chapters. The first edition of his book Parenting Children With ADHD: Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach (2 5) was named Parenting Book of the Year by IParenting, and his book Unlocking the Potential of Patients With ADHD: A Model for Clinical Practice (2 8) provides a model for comprehensive, effective, and practical community-based care for patients with ADHD. His skills as a master diagnostician and therapist have been internationally recognized and are archived in several educational videotaped programs, including Working With Children With ADHD (2 5). He has been a faculty member of Wilson Hospital's Family Practice Residency Program the Department of Psychology at Binghamton University and, most recently, the Graduate School of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Marywood University. Dr. Monastra is the recipient of several scientific awards, including the President's Award and the Hans Berger Award from the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback for his seminal research into the neurophysiological characteristics of ADHD and his groundbreaking study on EEG biofeedback. He was listed among the country's most innovative researchers in the Reader's Digest 2 4 edition of amp quot Medical Breakthroughs. amp quot

• IntroductionLife Lesson . Succeeding in Life Isn't Easy, but It Starts Out Simple: Eat, Sleep, and ExerciseLife Lesson 2. Making Yourself Heard by Staying CalmLife Lesson 3. Getting What You Want in Life Without Getting Into TroubleLife Lesson 4. Being Confident, Part : Master Something That Matters to Your PeersLife Lesson 5. Being Confident, Part 2: Face Your FearsLife Lesson . Finding Out What Others Like to Talk AboutLife Lesson 7. Sometimes Making Faces Can Be a Good IdeaLife Lesson 8. Ignoring Teasing Will Not Make It Go AwayLife Lesson 9. Every Day, Find Ways to Show AppreciationLife Lesson . Kindness Is ContagiousLife Lesson . Organization Is Not a Four-Letter Word!Life Lesson 2. Persistence Pays OffFinal Thoughts: A Personal PerspectiveSupplemental ResourcesIndexAbout the AuthorAbout the Cartoonists