Understanding ADHD: Our Personal Journey

Jane Heath teaches psychology at Ryerson Polytechnical University in
Toronto.

In this gem of a book about their daughter’s experiences with a
particularly severe form of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD), the McCluskeys draw on both firsthand experience and theoretical
and research-based knowledge of ADHD. The book describes their lives and
their daughter’s from her infancy on, with all the vicissitudes of
child and family development complicated by ADHD.

The McCluskeys are funny, touching, and informative. They provide
balanced and well-informed discussions of diagnosis, theory, treatment,
management, and prognosis for ADHD. They vividly convey what it is like
to deal with ADHD from a child’s point of view, in terms of
self-concept, peer relationships, and learning strategies. And they
movingly convey the challenges, pains, and rewards encountered by
parents and siblings of such a child.

Parents and teachers of children with suspected or diagnosed ADHD will
find this book a source of useful, practical, and solidly based
information on helping children with ADHD develop to their fullest
potential.