Treating Huckleberry Finn

Treating Huckleberry Finn offers a drug-free alternative to treating rambunctious children. Author David Nylund's SMART approach is a five-step strategy to understanding, nourishing, and learning to control the millions of youngsters who have been unfairly branded with the diagnoses of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Foreword ix Preface xiii Part 1 The Critique 1. Introduction: Huck Finn Meets Dr. Chad Geigy 3 2. Weird Science: Debunking the ADHD Diagnosis 13 Part 2 The Solution 3. The SMART Approach: An Overview 43 4. Step One: Separating the Problem of ADHD from the Child 69 5. Step Two: Mapping the Influence of ADHD on the Child and Family 87 6. Step Three: Attending to Exceptions to the ADHD Story 107 7. Step Four: Reclaiming Special Abilities of Children Diagnosed with ADHD 129 8. Step Five: Telling and Celebrating the New Story 153 9. Putting It All Together: SMART Therapy from Beginning to End 175 10. Huck at School: SMART Strategies in the Classroom 185 11. Huck Gets Smart: A Conversation Between Huck and David 209 Reading List 221 References 223 Index 228 The Author 234