Parent Child Excursions: ADHD Anxiety and Autism

Written for parents clinicians and educators Parent Child Excursions is a practical book about helping children with ADHD anxiety and autism. In this unique approach Dr. Dan presents ADHD as a problem with stopping anxiety as a problem with going and autism as difficulty balancing these competing tendencies. From the introduction: This book is quite simply a story of red light and green light braking and accelerating holding back and forging ahead. Based on this simple formulation management of problems with self-control depends on finding the right balance between excitation and inhibition.These five Excursions present entirely new ways to think about caring for different drummer children. Readers will discover an unprecedented level of detail. Based on scientific research and years of clinical experience Dr. Dan takes you for a deep dive into: (1) effective medication for ADHD (2) exposure therapy for anxiety (3) combined therapies for coexisting ADHD anxiety and autism and (4) social engineering for autism. The book concludes with an in-depth discussion of (5) autism sexuality and gender variation cowritten by Dr. Dan and his son Dr. Aaron Shapiro.As with his first book Parent Child Journey: An Individualized Approach to Raising Your Challenging Child Dr. Dan teams up again with illustrator John Watkins-Chow. Throughout the five Excursions they weave a fun metaphorical tale. Readers are led along by an under-inhibited dog an over-inhibited turtle and a well-balanced bird of a different feather.By the end of this comprehensive and original guidebook parents and professionals will have learned how to prepare the child for the trail and the trail for the child.