Choosing a camp for your child at the last minute can be challenging but not impossible. Here are some tips:
I hope this helps you find a great camp for your child!
Parenting
Tricks to Read a Book From Cover to Cover
For individuals with ADHD, reading can be challenging. Here are some tips.
Caring for Your Mental Health
Mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, act, make choices, and relate to others. Mental health is more than the absence of a mental illness—it’s essential to your overall health and quality of life.
Parent training to improve health behaviors in children with ADHD
While the adverse impact of ADHD on children’s academic, behavioral, and social functioning is widely known, there is less awareness that ADHD is also associated with suboptimal health behaviors such as reduced physical activity, sleep difficulties, and elevated screen time.
Why college students don’t regularly use their ADHD meds.
One recent study found that college students adhered to only 53% of prescribed ADHD medication doses, with the lowest rates of among first-year students. Developing a more complete understanding for why many new college students don’t adhere to their prescribed medication regime could helpful promote more consistent adherence.
Can teens with ADHD tell when they are on medication?
Can teens with ADHD tell when they are on medication?
Bipolar
in Children and Teens
Does your child go through extreme changes in mood and
behavior? Does your child get much more excited or much
more irritable than other kids? Do you notice that your child
goes through cycles of extreme highs and lows more often
than other children? Do these mood changes affect how your
child acts at school or at home?
Simulated driving program reduces crash risk for teens with ADHD in small study
A program that combines computer-based and driving simulator training may reduce the proportion of crashes and near crashes among teens with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Peer acceptance protects against negative outcomes for youth
Identifying factors that buffer some youth with ADHD from negative developmental outcomes is important as it could inform efforts to minimize the negative long-term effects of ADHD.
Brief sleep intervention provides enduring benefits to children with ADHD
Sleep problems are common in children with ADHD, are more persistent than in the general population, and often exacerbate difficulties associated with ADHD. For example, poor sleep can enhance difficulties with attention and concentration that most youth with ADHD experience.