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Tips for Parents Supporting Children with ADHD

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The school environment can be challenging even for a child with optimal psychological health. The responsibilities such as school assignments, homework, interaction with other children, and co-curricular activities all can contribute to considerable stress in a child. The level of stress in children who suffer from ADHD can be even greater because of the unique challenges they confront due to their symptoms.
The following pointers can help prepare a child with ADHD for school:

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Plan Ahead to Help Your Child with ADHD: Tips for Mastery of the Classroom Experience

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Children with ADHD benefit from knowing what to expect before they arrive to the classroom. This will not only prevent any potential issues (e.g., behavioral, academic) during the first days or weeks of school, but it will also provide the child with a much-needed boost of self-confidence, as they won’t be as overwhelmed with their new classroom environment, new teacher(s), classroom rules, peers, and the numerous other distractions and challenges they will face.

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Therapy Podcast – Forgiving Yourself for a Bad Day

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In this Podcast with Dr Gordon: Forgiving yourself for bad day. “Self talk” and having faith in yourself.

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Dr Jay Gordon - Pathways Neuropsychology Associates | Psychologists | Toms River, Manahawkin, Freehold, NJ

Therapy Podcast – Supporting Significant Others During Diet Part 2 & Self Image

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In this Podcast with Dr Gordon: Supporting Significant Others During Diet Part 2. Plus
Taking day off and treating yourself….Believing you could do it (most important thing)… Self Image

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Dr Jay Gordon - Pathways Neuropsychology Associates | Psychologists | Toms River, Manahawkin, Freehold, NJ

Therapy Podcast – Supporting Significant Others During Diet & Exercise

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In this Podcast with Dr Gordon: Supporting Significant Others During Diet & Exercise

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The IQ Test Broken Down

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The IQ, Intelligence Quotient, test is a standardized test created to measure intelligence. It is a helpful tool to predict academic and vocational success. The idea behind the IQ test is that by assessing certain measurable cognitive abilities of a person, one can make predictions regarding a person’s abilities and future functioning. Questions on the test range…

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Dr Jay Gordon - Pathways Neuropsychology Associates | Psychologists | Toms River, Manahawkin, Freehold, NJ

Therapy Podcast – Keeping Things in Perspective

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In this Podcast with Dr Gordon: Keeping things in perspective— “Apreciation of chaos”— while raising children; Guy or girl say “I love you” first?

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Prozac Nation Is Now Xanax Nation

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While to epidemiologists the disorder is a medical condition, anxiety is starting to seem like a sociological condition, too: a shared cultural experience that feeds on alarmist CNN graphics and metastasizes through social media.

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Dr Jay Gordon - Pathways Neuropsychology Associates | Psychologists | Toms River, Manahawkin, Freehold, NJ

Therapy Podcast – Self Awareness

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In this Podcast with Dr Gordon:

Keeping your cool when stuck with children for very long time during winter break; understanding we arent perfect; self-awareness; taking vacations

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Why Your Child’s ADHD Evaluation is Not One and Done

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While ADHD is typically a chronic condition, it is by no means static. Symptoms will evolve as children grow and transition from one grade to the next. With a new classroom and another year of maturity under a child’s belt, the problems in the classroom experienced last year might not be the same as this year. In order to best tailor your child’s ADHD treatment, an important part of his or her diagnosis is to continue to reevaluate them each year.

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