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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
"Although medication gives much needed support, the individual must succeed on his own. To help in this struggle, both 'psychoeducation' and individual therapy can be helpful. A professional Coach can help......"
August 6th, 2007. www.nimh.gov/publications/adhd.cfm
ARI TRUCKMAN PhD
Coaching is an important part of treatments for adhd adults and its the part that was missing from many of these clients' former therapies. Success in the present cuts the chains of failure binding them to their pasts. [......]
The key is to give each client what she needs no matter how different from the client before her. Coaching is just one more tool in our toolbox to help us get our jobs done, and done well.
Integrative Treatment for ADHD: A practical Easy-To-Use guide for Clinicians (2007, page 189)
RUSSELL A BARKLEY. Ph.D
Dr Barkley has specialised in ADHD for more than 30 years and is currently a research professor at the department of psychiatry at the SUNY Upstate
Medical University, in Syracuse. He is the author of numerous scientific papers and over a dozen books on ADHD including the best selling Taking Charge of ADHD. The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents.
"another potentially helpful area of intervention for adults with ADHD is personal coaching".
Attention Deficit Hyp0eractivity Disorder Third Edition: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment (2006. p 700)
Barkley further said, in the above cited book (. 726). regarding the efficacy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (which is very similar to coaching) for people with ADHD:
"Recent date indicate that when this protocal [ADHD Adapted CBT - McDermott & Wilens, 2000; as cited in Safren et al, 2005] was combined with medication, two thirds of 26 adults whose ADHD was previously unresponsive to treatment were found to manifest clinically significant improvement."
PATRICIA O. QUIN, M.D.
Dr Patricia Quinn is a developemntal paediatrician in the Washington D.C. area,and has worked for over 30 years in the areas of ADHD & learning disabilities.
"Coaching is wonderful for those with ADHD because it gets to all the nitty gritty stuff that medication does not address. Medication can reduce the symptoms of ADHD and help you concentrate, but it doesnt teach you how to get organised or get that better job".
August 6, 2007 from : wwwncgiadd.org/members/pdf/0608_newsletter.pdf
THOM HARTMAN
Thom Hartman is the author of eight books on ADHD and the creator of the "Hunter in a Farmer's World" metaphor and of the Shaddow Coaching Programme for helping people whose lives are toughced by ADHD to achieve success.
"Coaching, it turns out, is one of the the most powerful and effective ways for people with ADHD to achieve success"
August 6th, 2007 from . www.thisisawar.com/IllnessADDCoaching.htm
