Finding Your Focus: Practical Strategies for the Everyday Challenges Facing Adults with ADD

Finding Your Focus: Practical Strategies for the Everyday Challenges Facing Adults with ADD
by Geraldine Markel, Judith Greenbaum

Finding Your Focus: Practical Strategies for the Everyday Challenges Facing Adults with ADD
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Author: Geraldine Markel, Judith Greenbaum
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-15
ISBN: 0071453962
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
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Book Reviews of Finding Your Focus: Practical Strategies for the Everyday Challenges Facing Adults with ADD

Book Review: Good introduction, but more substance needed
Summary: 3 Stars

I was disappointed.

This might be a good book, perhaps even excellent, for someone who is newly diagnosed with ADD, or for someone who is new to working on coping strategies. But I didn't find that much that I haven't come across elsewhere before.

I was surprised to find out that both of the authors have doctorates, because it seemed to me like the book was written at about a seventh-grade reading level. At times as I was reading the book, I felt like I was being talked down to, the language was that simple.

Part of the problem with the book is that it attempts to cover a lot of material in only about 170 fairly sparse pages. As a result, for example, it spends only 9 pages dealing with medication issues, a subject worth much more. It covers the subject of goal-setting in too few pages also; you'd be much better off reading "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" or something similar.

The advice in this book is very sound, and I found a few strategies that were new to me (such as how to not lose my car in a parking lot, which happens nearly every time). But for someone who is fairly well-read on the subject, there simply isn't enough here.

Summary of Finding Your Focus: Practical Strategies for the Everyday Challenges Facing Adults with ADD

"Filled with tools, strategies, and checklists and written with a fine understanding of the 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 more than 30 years experience, this practical handbook offers adults with ADD practical techniques for coping with common everyday challenges. These simple proven strategies can help you focus attention, organize your thoughts, and manage time-so you can avoid missing appointments and deadlines, handle social situations, and improve memory skills. A safe alternative to prescription medications, it's a complete home program that anyone can do.

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