Answers
for ADHD Questions
Lawrence Weathers
Ph.D.
Child Psychologist
Practice limited to children 5-18 and their families
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As parents struggle to help their adhd, add
and high functioning aspergers children, they are
presented with a huge amount of confusing information. Parents have
a crucial set of questions about ADHD that they need answered. This page
is an attempt to answer those in a clear, straightforward, useful way.
These answers combine my review of the scientific literature and over 35
years of clinical experience helping these children and their families.
Each section can be explored using the hyperlinks in the left-hand
column.
DRUGS One of the first, and often the most avidly promoted treatment is stimulant.
antidepressant or antipsychotic
medications. Schools often suggest a referral to a pediatrician for
stimulant
drugs such as Ritalin, Concerta, Dexedrine, Adderall,
Metadate, Strattera, Focalin, or Attenade; antidepressant such as
Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft and more recently the antipsychotic Risperdal.
Be cautious. Drug research is biased.
The efficacy of drug treatment is increasingly being questioned by the
scientific community. See these articles:
For over 35 years I have worked with ADHD children
and their families. Having been an ADHD child myself, I have a personal
interest in this area.
Current explanations of the disorder never fit my
experience or the
children I saw. It always seemed contradictory that
children who could not attend to school work could play computer games for
hours, though both activities use the same areas of the brain. This stimulated years
of research and rethinking of ADHD theory and treatment.
From this I developed my new (patented) and highly effective, drug free, Computer Aided Emotional
Restructuring (CAER) treatment and wrote my book,
ADHD: A Path to Success to explain it.
Learn how ADHD is not a defect,
deficit or a disorder, but a highly skilled short-term
defense mechanism that backfires in the long-run. Read more than 40 Amazon.com “customer reviews” of my book
and treatment. The most
typical response when people read the book is “That makes so much more
sense than anything else I have read”, “You describe my child exactly”.
It will empower you
an optimistic lens that will forever change how you see your child and his
problems. Sound
intriguing? Learn about it now. You can read online or download he first six
chapters FREE now!! 
There is a highly effective treatment alternative to Metadate.
Ritalin
Adderall
Strattera
Concerta
Metadate
Dexedrine
Focalin
Attenade
Cylert
Paxil
Prozac
Wellbutrin
Zoloft
Trileptal
Remeron
Celexa
Lexapro
Effexor
Anti-Hypertensive
