When the ADHD Diagnosis Is Wrong: Understanding Other Factors That Affect Attention in Children

A game-changing resource for parents caught in the labyrinth of the promoted treatments heralding help for troubled children and their families this book provides readers invaluable guidance in seeking accurate diagnosis and scientifically verified treatment options.Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children is real and can be severely disabling. However most causes of childrens attention problems are unrelated to ADHD and are not resolvable by drugging the child. Treating symptoms is simply not adequate; a completely different approach to the diagnoses and treatment of attention problems in children is necessary. This book identifies the many neurological patterns associated with childrens attention challenges explains the many psychological and physical factors that can affect attention and describes how to determine if your child needs not medication but other approaches―such as psychological guidance diet changes or simply time to develop past childhood―to solve the problem.Paul G. Swingle PhD RPsych provides millions of parents who are desperate for scientifically sound information about how to help their children with conditions that are negatively impacting their learning development and happiness with a resource that is precise definitive and easy to read. Illustrated with examples from across his 30 years of practice Swingles book informs readers about the many factors that can affect childrens attention and can often be treated with drugless approaches and therapy for success. Parents will understand how intolerance of what constitutes normal childrens behavior and the failure to recognize the emotional challenges that many children have in our culture today constitute causative factors in the misdiagnosis of attention deficit disorders.Provides parents and teachers with critical information that identifies the questions they should ask and points the way to finding a correct diagnosis and curative understanding of treatmentsExplains why the error rate for diagnoses of ADHS and many other conditions affecting childrens ability to thrive in school is so highAuthored by a highly respected expert on child psychology neurotherapy and psychophysiology who is a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and has been a lecturer at Harvard