Dr. Melmed Recommends

Step by step by step...The Angry Self: A Comprehensive Approach to Anger Management provides just that: a clear, accessible, and practical alternative to uncontrolled anger. Not simply a series of techniques, this approach views anger management as a process, one that engages clients in making real changes in their lives.

Designed as a workbook to be used directly by the client,...inside or outside the therapy room...The Angry Self presents a framework that includes cognitive-behavioral strategies, Ericksonian tenets, relaxation techniques, exploration of values, and problem solving. Building on a combination of these ideas, the author has created a cohesive course of action to help clients expand their communication and response vocabulary.

By following this workbook, clients will learn first to identify their anger and then to loosen its grip on their lives. What is most significant, perhaps, is that they will discover ways to take that energy...energy previously spent on anger and its ramifications...and redirect it toward creating solutions.

Miriam Gottlieb knows her audience. A great deal of attention has been given to creating rapport with readers and to pace the learning in such a way that they feel encouraged and hopeful. As clients add to their evolving repertoire of skills, their confidence grows, and as their confidence grows, their desire to refine their skills increases.

The Angry Self offers a crucial perspective for all those who are caught in a cycle of anger. It offers a sequence of strategies to help them break through years of reflexive behavior. It offers, finally, a realistic and enduring blueprint for well-being.

What a delightful surprise! A very informative and wonderfully entertaining handbook for children that explores the causes and effects of stress and offers young people practical approaches and techniques for dealing with stress factors in their daily lives.

In today's pressure-cooker society, this book is a must. Children will love it. Parents will appreciate it. Teachers and counselors will recognize its value as a tool for affecting children's lives in positive ways.

In his delightful book, Don't Pop Your Cork on Mondays!, Dr. Adolph Moser offers children a practical guide for dealing with stress factors in their lives. The book received rave reviews and enthusiastic responses from thousands of children, parents, counselors, and teachers.

Now, in Don't Feed the Monster on Tuesdays!, Dr. Moser strikes right to the heart of the basic elements of self-esteem. He presents valuable information to children that will help them understand the importance of their self-worth, then he offers practical approaches by which children can evaluate and strengthen their senses of self-esteem.

Monster is a very friendly book. Children will love it! Parents will appreciate it. Teachers and counselors will recognize its value as a tool for affecting children's lives in positive ways.

Anger can be a powerful and frightening emotion for children to see in others and experience in themselves. In his new book, Dr. Moser explains the causes of anger and offers methods that can help children reduce the amount of anger they feel. He also gives effective techniques to help young people control their behavior, even when they are angry.

This book will delight both children and adults. It's informative and it's fun because Dr. Moser examines the complex feelings of human anger with the proper blend of sensitivity and humor. David Melton's colorful illustrations are bright and witty.

Counselors, teachers, parents and children who have read and used Moser's previous books, Don't Pop Your Cork on Mondays! and Don't Feed the Monster on Tuesdays!, are sure to welcome the newest addition to this very successful series.

In this informative book, Dr. Moser explains the grief process to children and helps them understand that grieving is a normal response. He also lets them know that their grief may last more than just a few days or weeks. He offers practical approaches and easy-to-follow methods that youngsters can use, day-to-day, to cope with the emotional pain they feel.

Children are sure to be comforted by the friendly manner and the sensitivity that Dr. Moser imparts in his writing. The illustrations created by David Melton are bright and colorful, adding just the right mood of optimism and encouragement for young readers.

Counselors, teachers, and parents are bound to recognize Thursdays! as an important resource to have available for the children who are in their care.

The truth may be sacred, but many people-both children and adults-think lying is easier. Some people lie so often that it becomes a habit-a very bad habit-that reduces their own sense of self-esteem and makes others not trust them.

In a clear and easy-to-understand narrative, Dr. Moser discusses the problems of lying and the importance of telling the truth. He offers thoughtful examples and suggests ways that can help children tell the truth.

Dr. Moser's text is informative, entertaining, witty and easy to read. David Melton's illustrations are outstanding. They are bright and clever, and often hilarious.

Children are sure to love this book. Parents are bound to appreciate it's common-sense approach. Teachers and counselors will recognize this book as a valuable tool for affecting the lives of children in positive ways.

When their parents divorce, children often become very upset and feel that everything is falling apart.

In this wonderful book, Dr. Adolph Moser writes directly to children on a one-on-one basis and discusses the problems they experience when their parents divorce. He clears up any misunderstandings that children may have and suggests ways by which they can help themselves get through a very difficult time.

While this book can be very helpful to those children who read it by themselves, it can be even more beneficial when they read it with both of their parents-one parent at a time. Both the text and illustrations can open avenues for meaningful discussions between parents and children that can help them gain better understandings of each other's feelings and show them ways to solve many of their problems.

The purpose of The ADD/ADHD Checklist is to better understand children and teenagers with ADD/ADHD and the kind of support and intervention that is necessary for their success. Written in a simple, concise, easy-to-read checklist format, the book is packed with practical advice and information on a wide range of topics and is organized into the following five sections:

1. CHECKLISTS FOR BASIC INFORMATION ON ADD/ADHD
2. CHECKLISTS FOR PARENTS
3. CHECKLISTS FOR TEACHERS
4. ACADEMIC STRATEGIES FOR HOME AND SCHOOL
5. OTHER IMPORTANT CHECKLISTS FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS

As the author reminds us, "It is never too late to help a child with ADD/ADHD. If I am able to convey any message throughout my book, I wish it to be one of hope and optimism. When we work together, each and every one of our children can succeed!"

"Sandy Rief's vast knowledge of youngsters with ADD/ADHD is readily apparent in her impressive new book. In a refreshingly concise, easy-to-read style, she provides a wealth of information about ADD/ADHD that will serve as a wonderful resource for parents, teachers, and other professionals. The recommendations she offers for both the home and school environment are clear, practical, and achievable and based on a belief in the child's ability to succeed."

Robert Brooks, Ph.D., author of The Self-Esteem Teacher and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School

"Sandy Rief has provided an encyclopedia of practical information, tips and suggestions. The organization of the ADD/ADHD Checklist makes a very large volume of information easily accessible to the reader. Ms. Rief has deftly blended the current scientific knowledge concerning ADHD with a wealth of knowledge developed from her years as an educator."

Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., co-author of Managing Attention Disorders in Children, Second Edition and on the faculty of the University of Utah

"I teach many in-service workshops on AD/HD for parents and educators. The ADD/ADHD Checklist is the book I have been waiting for. I'll be referring many people to it because its comprehensive, but simple, format of checklists will be valuable in providing that 'extra understanding' that parents and educators need to help those with AD/HD achieve successful outcomes."

Linda P. Smith, Educator and Parent of an AD/HD child

This ground-breaking book is for parents, teachers, and other professionals who want to learn how to recognize and help girls with ADHD. Checklists for preschool, elementary, middle, and high school levels are provided to help identify girls with AD/HD. Special diagnostic issues are highlighted: why girls may not show signs of ADHD in early childhood, why bright girls with AD/HD go undetected, and why girls' symptoms often increase at puberty. Educational and treatment needs of girls are discussed in a practical, solution-oriented fashion.

"This book is truly a must-read for anyone who lives or works with AD/HD girls and for the girls themselves, as well. The authors provide original and valuable insights into the unique experiences of girls with ADHD."

Barbara Ingersoll, PhD, Author of Your Hyperactive Child

"One of the most right-thinking, clear-minded, well-informed, and filled-with-practical-things-you-can-do books on ADD/ADHD in women and girls that has ever been written. This book fills a huge gap in a way that offers hope and real-world solutions. Truly unique and highly recommended."

Thom Hartmann, Writer and Lecturer on ADHD Author of A Different Perception: Hunter in a Farmer's World

"Women who grew-up with ADHD will be sorry this book wasn't written years earlier!"

Ellen Kingsley, Editor ADDitude Magazine

Congratulations! You're now a middle school or high school student and are looking forward to exciting times and meeting lots of new friends. Maybe you were recently diagnosed with ADD, or maybe you have been living with it for some time, but either way, you are probably finding that coping with your life-starting a new school year, dating (perhaps for the first time!), joining a football, basketball or other team, getting an after school job-seems to be more challenging.

Adolescents and ADD: Gaining the Advantage has been written just for you. It will give you a better understanding of your ADD and will provide you with some valuable advice to help you achieve success in and out of the classroom. Most importantly, other students your own age tell you, in their own words, what works best for them, and may work best for you, too.

In addition, this book will give you a better scientific understanding of ADD. It offers tips on getting yourself organized, on dating, on driving, on how to achieve greater success in your classes, on how to stand up for your rights, and much, much more. It answers some of the most frequently asked questions about ADD. For further help, it includes a resource list of other books on ADD.

This book is essential reading for every adolescent with ADD (and their parents as well). You will learn that you are not alone, but with the help and support of others can find ways of gaining the advantage!

"Combines professional guidance with empathic input by teens who are walking the ADD road. Direction and hope are the results. I wholeheartedly endorse it."

Lynn Weiss, PH.D. Clinical Consultant and Co-Founder of The Lynn Weiss ADD Center for Adults and Teens

For educators, specialists, and parents, here is a remarkable new resource packed with classroom-tested techniques and practical know-how for helping children with attention deficit disorders-with or without hyperactivity.

Focusing on the "whole child" and a team approach that lets you guide these children toward academic as well as personal success, the book shows you…

• What is ADD/ADHD and how to identify it
• Successful home-school intervention plans based on actual case studies
• How to get and keep student attention and increase on-task behavior
• Specific management techniques that prevent behavioral problems
• What works best to improve student's organization and study skills
• Proven multi-sensory activities and methods for language arts, math, and writing instruction
• How to reach students through learning styles awareness, environmental modification, and cooperative learning situations
• Various medication, their effects, and school management of them
• How to modify assignments and tests, and accommodate the child with writing difficulties
• Numerous strategies on how to manage kindergarten children
• How to use relaxation, guided imagery, visualization techniques, and music to get the most from your students
• How to avoid problems during transitional and noninstructional times
• A Parent's Story that deals with the many issues, feelings, and struggles that families face when a child has this disorder
• Interviews with teens and adults who share what made a significant difference in their lives

Plus you get sample contracts, charts, a student self-evaluation checklist, sample letters and documentation on communicating with physicians and agencies, a learning styles interview to use with children, observation sheets, and an outline for social skills planning unit to help you successfully manage the impulsive, overly stimulated, "quick-to-anger" child as well as the child who just can't focus.

In short, this complete resource is like having an expert at your side to answer virtually any question on how to reach and teach children who need your help with understanding!

"Rief really gets it, and this book will give you what she gets. A wonderful contribution and valuable, practical resource for all teachers, parents, and clinicians." - Edward Hallowell, M.D.

For all classroom teachers, special educators, administrators, and parents, here is a remarkable new resource packed with ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities for helping students with diverse learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors in today's inclusive classroom.

Focusing on the "whole child" and a team approach that lets you guide a varied group of students toward academic as well as social and emotional success, the book shows you:

• How to reach all students through their multiple intelligences and learning styles
• How to create and run a developmental classroom using portfolios, interest and instructional centers, thematic teaching units, and more
• How to promote home/school communication and parent involvement with school outreach efforts
• How to manage behaviors and use positive discipline to reduce and prevent problems
• How to get students organized for learning success
• How to use specific programs and strategies to foster students' self-esteem
• How to reach all of your students with special needs
• How to use interventions and adaptations for accommodating special needs
• How to build positive relationships , social skills and conflict resolution skills
• How to team with other teachers to better meet your own and students' needs
• How to apply effective questioning techniques in the classroom
• How to hook reluctant readers/writers through the use of poetry, comic strips, and other motivational materials
• How to make oral language come alive using "Quick-Talks" and other techniques
• How to motivate kids to be successful mathematicians with creative strategies such as "Consumer Math Field Trip" and "Classroom Math Centers"
• How to rev up research skills with the "Mini-Research Project" and the "Learning Fair"
• How to get the most out of students through scientific investigation
• How to capitalize on music in the classroom through "Multicultural Music" and more
• How to reach students through the arts with drawing and other expressive forms

PLUS you get over 100 full-page reproducible management tools, such as a "Parent Volunteer Assistance Form"… "Portfolio Item Evaluation Form"… "Mystery Story Planning Sheet" (for thematic unit "Mystery Around Us") … Teacher Newsletters … Letter to parents on missing homework … "Behavioral Improvement Form" … sample School-Home Compact … "Cereal Box investigation" (reading/science) … "Survival Math Packet" … and " Science Project Information Sheet."

In short, How To Reach & Teach All Students In The Inclusive Classroom gives you all the necessary information and specific techniques you need to effectively integrate heterogeneous groups of students and ensure the success of each and every child in the classroom!

All you need to know about ADHD...what it is and what to do about it. This is the book ADHD kids, their parents, and professionals have all been asking for.

When young people learn they have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), they have many questions, doubts, and fears. This book, written from both a pediatric and an educational perspective, attempts to address their needs and questions. School age children respect the material they find in a book, especially when it confirms or elaborates what they have learned from experience or from a significant adult. Children need reassurance that the problems they have are not unique to them. They benefit from a sense that help is available and that they themselves can be a powerful force in their own treatment.

"Required reading for hyperactive children of all ages and their parents, teachers and practitioners. This book is superb in every aspect."
Alan Zametkin, M.D.
Senior Staff Psychiatrist, National Institute of Mental Health

" This is the book so many parents and professionals have asked for. Down-to-earth in style and upbeat in tone, it contains a wealth of important information about ADHD along with practical suggestions for coping with the problems ADHD presents."
Barbara D Ingersoll, PH.D.
Clinical psychologist, Author, Your hyperactive child:
A Parent's Guide to Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder

"Putting On The Brakes does a marvelous job addressing the issues likely to arise in counseling children 8-13 about ADHD, its nature, and its treatment. I am sure it will prove of value to those who counsel this age group and to these children themselves in their pursuit to better understand their disorder."
Russell A Barkley, PH.D.
Director of Psychology, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
Author, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:
A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment

The "Putting on the Brakes ACTIVITY BOOK for Young People with ADHD provides dozens of ways to spark and hold the interest of young readers with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Designed as a companion to the extraordinary popular Putting on the Brakes: Young People's Guide to Understanding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, this book allows children to put their understanding of ADHD into action. Using pictures, puzzles, and other techniques to assist in the learning of a range of skills, this book helps teach problem solving, organizing, setting priorities, planning, maintaining control...all of those hard-to-learn skills that make everyday life just a little more manageable. Thorough, clear, encouraging instructions provide support even when a given project seems "too tough".

"I think kids will have a lot of fun doing these activities. The book gives kids a framework to try new ideas that will help them grow"

Susan Ritzer
School Guidance Counselor

"The 'Putting on the Brakes ACTIVITY BOOK will become a benchmark for helping ADHD kids understand and cope with their disorder. I highly recommend it!"

Mark M. Jacob, President/Founder
Peninsula Attention Deficit Disorder Association

At last, a book for parents and professionals about adolescents with Attention Deficit Disorder. Teenagers With ADD takes a comprehensive look at the special issues and challenges faced by these teens, their families, teachers. and treatment professionals. Based upon the most current diagnostic criteria available and incorporating ADD literature and research, Teenagers With ADD provides a complete introduction to all forms of ADD and discusses:

• Definitions
• Diagnosis
• Medical Treatment
• Family and School Life
• Intervention
• Advocacy
• Legal Rights
• Options after High School

Throughout are the voices of teens, parents, educators, and professionals who describe the peaks and valleys of life with ADD, providing insight, hope, support, and advice for successfully navigating the teenage years.

"Written by one of the nation's most outstanding advocates for mental health services for children, Teenagers With ADD does a superb job of providing information to help parents and professionals in their efforts to support young people."

Bob Friedman, PhD, Chairperson,
Department of Child and Family Studies
University of South Florida

"Finally, we have a book that deals exclusively with issues of ADD in the teenage years. I highly recommend it."

Harvey C. Parker, PhD
ADD WareHouse

"Offers all the basic information necessary to understand the condition, get help, and provide appropriate guidance for adolescents with ADD. Teenagers With ADD has something for everyone associated with this population...alive with quotes and photographs."

Temperamentally difficult children confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They are often demanding, defiant, stubborn, loud, impulsive, or wild. Some can be clingy, shy, negative, whiny, and picky. Most are impossible at bedtime, mealtimes, or in public places. Tantrums, even "meltdowns", are common. But even the worst behavior may not be your child's fault...or yours, either!

Dr. Stanley Turecki, one of the nation's most respected experts on children and discipline...and himself a father of a once difficult child...offers compassionate and practical advice to parents of hard-to-raise children. Based on his experience with thousands of families, his step-by-step approach shows you how to:

• Identify your child's temperament, using a ten-point checklist to pinpoint specific difficulties
• Manage typical conflicts expertly...with kindness and firmness
• Make discipline more effective, so you punish much less
• Get support from schools, doctors, and other parents
• Understand ADHD, ADD, and other diagnoses, and decide if medication is right for your child
• Accept and respect your child as an individual
• Make the most of the creativity and positive potential of your difficult child

The first accessible, clearly written guide to Sensory Integration Dysfunction...and a drug-free approach that offers new hope for parents.

Does your child exhibit...

Oversensitivity...or undersensitivity...to touch, taste, smell, sound, or sight? Children with SI Dysfunction may avoid touching, refuse to wear certain clothing, be picky eaters, or cover their ears or eyes. Conversely, they may crave sensations...playing in mud, grabbing others, turning-up the volume, preferring hot bath water and spicy food...and seem oblivious to sensory cues.

Oversensitivity...or undersensitivity...to movement sensations? They may seek-out movement...swinging, twirling, jumping...or "plant themselves", avoiding active games.

Unusually high or low activity level? The child may be constantly on the go...wearing-out everyone around her...or move slowly and tire easily, showing little interest in the world.

Problems with motor coordination? He may be awkward, seemingly careless, or accident-prone.

These telltale symptoms are often the first clues to SI Dysfunction...a common, but frequently misdiagnosed problem in which messages from the senses are not correctly processed by the central nervous system. First identified decades ago by an occupational therapist, SI Dysfunction has only recently been widely recognized among doctors and psychologists. Now, this guide offers comprehensive, easily understood information on SI Dysfunction...and a drug-free treatment approach...for children who need help.

"This book will bring both hope and practical help to the parents who wonder why their kid doesn't fit-in"

Jane M. Healy, PhD
Learning Specialist and Author of Your Child's Growing Mind

"The Out-of-Sync Child does a masterful job of providing detailed, practical help for children with sensory integration problems."

Stanley I. Greenspan, MD
Child Psychiatrist and Author (with J. Salmon) of The Challenging Child

"All parents should read this book, especially those with children who are out of control. Ross Greene presents a loving, rational, and research-based approach to dealing with problems that most parents have either felt were their own fault or were unresolved. I could not recommend this book more highly."

Edward Hallowell, MD
Author of Driven to Distraction and Worry: Controlling it and Using it Wisely

"The Explosive Child is a must for the many parents, teachers, and professionals who attempt to guide, teach, and work with difficult, hard-to-manage, and easily frustrated children...Based on rich and sensitive clinical insights as well as recent research findings, [this book] illustrates through case studies and poignant vignettes the developmental deficits in flexibility and frustration tolerance that characterize these children and impede their growth and development. In doing so, [Dr. Greene] has brought a refreshingly new perspective on how to understand and manage these difficult yet endearing children...A must-read...for the children's sake and ours."

Thomas H. Ollendick, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Child Study Center, Virginia Tech

"This is a truly remarkable book...Guided by an understanding of the thinking and behavior of inflexible-explosive children, [Dr. Greene] skillfully provides us with both a framework and practical interventions for minimizing struggles with these children and enhancing their development. Not only was I impressed with his creative approach and strategies, but what comes across on every page of this wonderful book is a genuine caring and compassion for these youngsters and their families."

Robert Brooks, PhD
Author of The Self-Esteem Teacher

"An insightful, sensitive portrayal of children who need help...and how to help them."

Myrna B. Shure, PhD
Author of Raising a Thinking Child

"A user-friendly, practical guide for parents trying to help difficult, explosive children. This book will be of enormous benefit to such children and their families."

Michael Jellinek, MD
Chief, Child Psychiatry Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

"A Mind At A Time is a wide-ranging exploration of the myriad ways in which young minds differ, coupled with vivid and useful recommendations about developing those minds to the fullest."

Elisabeth A. Hobbs
Professor in Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education
Author of The Disciplined Mind and Frames of Mind

"A Mind At A Time continues Mel Levine's enormously valuable lifework of helping children find success, especially those children whose talents are not immediately recognized and valued by adults. This courageous and brilliant pediatrician has caused the medical textbooks to be rewritten and the educational curricula to be reformed. Brimming with intelligence, humor, wit, and originality, Dr. Levine is most of all full of love for children. This is a groundbreaking and useful book."

Edward Hallowell, MD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Director, Hallowell Center, Sudbury, Massachusetts
Author of Driven to Distraction and Human Moments