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Finding Your Focus Judith Greenbaum

Finding Your Focus von Judith Greenbaum

Finding Your Focus Judith Greenbaum

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Zusammenfassung

Offers adults with ADD techniques for coping with common everyday challenges. This book provides strategies that can help them focus attention, organize their thoughts, and manage time - so that they can avoid missing appointments and deadlines, handle social situations, and improve memory skills.

Finding Your Focus Zusammenfassung

Finding Your Focus Judith Greenbaum

Filled with tools, strategies, and checklistsand written with a fine understanding ofthe problems adults with ADD face daily.This book is a gift to all who read it.-Edward Hollowell, M.D., bestselling author of Driven to Distraction

Written by two expert ADD coaches with morethan 30 years experience, this practical handbookoffers adults with ADD practical techniques forcoping with common everyday challenges. These simpleproven strategies can help you focus attention,organize your thoughts, and manage time-soyou can avoid missing appointments and deadlines,handle social situations, and improve memory skills. Asafe alternative to prescription medications, it's a completehome program that anyone can do.

Über Judith Greenbaum

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR005131365
9780071453967
0071453962
Finding Your Focus Judith Greenbaum
Judith Greenbaum
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
20060116
256
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