The Family ADHD Solution: A Scientific Approach to Maximizing Your Child's At... “ADHD challenges a child and also a family; The Family ADHD Solution balances an expert approach to the science of understanding, managing, and living with ADHD with practical, evidence-based, and sympathetic strategies for the whole family. Dr. Bertin will help parents and children cope, understand what is happening, and live and learn together from one day to the next.” ― Perri Klass, M.D., author of Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor “Mark Bertin has written an insightful guide to help families approach the challenges of attentional difficulties with a mindful approach. While "attention deficit" refers to a complex set of dysfunctions in much more than the focus of attention, it fills families with a wide array of issues. To support the ever-stressful journey, the author takes the important but often forgotten stance that caregivers need their own deep understanding and self-care in order to function well and offer the optimal help to their children. What this means is that parents and other caregivers of children who have executive functions not working as they should--being able to pause before acting on an impulse, sustaining attention, avoiding becoming distracted--can now have an accessible method for maintaining a calm and clear focus of their own attention to keep their families functioning as best they can. Research has suggested that learning to be mindfully aware can help reduce stress, focus the mind, keep emotions balanced, and even improve your immune function. The bottom-line of these studies is that you can learn to approach challenging situations with resilience. So why not take the small amount of time to read this wonderful book and prepare yourself and your family well for the challenges ahead?” ― Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., author, of Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation and Parenting from the Inside Out “An excellent guide for families with children with ADHD. Mark Bertin not only explains the science behind how ADHD affects the brain, but also provides real tools and techniques for parents to both help their children succeed at home and academically, as well as restore balance to their lives.” ― Edward Hallowell, M.D., author of Driven to Distraction “ The Family ADHD Solution by Mark Bertin jumps to the top of my book list for families living with ADHD. It captures the science and the human story of ADHD with clarity and specifics – and offers the first real approach to parenting a child with ADHD that doesn't blame the child or the parent. This book fills a gaping hole in the ADHD parenting bookshelf – providing a working understanding of ADHD that is accurate and accessible and giving parents a chance to literally catch their breath and recognize how hard it is for the child with ADHD and for parents trying to get their child on the right track. Compassion for the child and the adults working with the child define everything else that Dr. Bertin discusses. The book assumes that interventions will be difficult and need to be changed over time – and doesn't apply a one size fits all approach. The tools provided are different than those found elsewhere – and the science supports the tools. Strategies that parents learn from this book are specific enough to try right away – and flexible enough to modify for different children and over time with the same child. I love this book and cannot wait to be able to recommend it to my patients and families.” ― Candida Fink, MD, author of The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child “I highly recommend this book. It's excellent, comprehensive coverage of practical information linked to scholarly research will help parents better understand and cope with the expectable challenges of parenting a youngster with ADHD. The author conveys in an articulate, engaging, and thoughtful manner a high level of familiarity with these challenges, and provides a clear set of empirically based techniques to manage them. Especially valuable are the emphases on the biological underpinnings of ADHD to help lessen the likelihood of blame, mindfulness techniques to manage stress and facilitate self-regulation, and guidelines to track the effects of medications and adjust dosage levels when needed.” ― Norman Brier, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine “With compassion and insight, in language that is easy to understand, Dr. Bertin has taken on the task of explaining ADHD to families struggling to make sense of this difficult topic. And he succeeds brilliantly, shining light on difficult concepts and offering tools for dealing with the challenges in children's lives. It is a book that should be on the bookshelf of every parent and grandparent of a child with ADHD.” ― Robert Marion, M.D., Director of the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center at Albert Einstein College of Med