You, Your Relationship & Your ADD: A Workbook

By Michael T. Bell

Book Overview

An engaging workbook from a therapist who suffers from adult ADD helps readers change impulsive and frustrating behaviors and learn new skills to help them build lasting and satisfying intimate relationships. Millions of adult meet the diagnostic criteria for Attention Deficit Disorder. When they get involved in committed relationships, the kind of spontaneity that originally made them attractive to their partners often starts to feel frustrating and undependable as relationships progress and the ADD adult's irritability and poor communication skills start to put a strain on their partner's patience. ADD adults are often bewildered by their inability to manage their romantic relationships and devastated by a long history of failed attempts. Psychotherapist Michael Bell understands how they feel, both from his professional background treating clients with adult ADD and from his own life experience of learning how to cope with the disorder. cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused techniques to teech readers how to stop avoiding the problems that sabotage their relationships, face the intimacy issues that frustrate their partners, and begin to do the work they need to do to build a lasting relationship. His clear and concise workbook offers exercises that keep readers involved and give them a chance to learn the skills they need to learn in order to control frustrations, and really begin to listen to their partner.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157224299X
• ISBN13: 9781572242999
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good for couples

This book is great for couples to sit down and look at each aspect of their ADD affected relationship, and work out written exercises in the book so they can make changes together to help the person in the relationship with ADD.

A must-have for those married with ADD

This is an excellent resource for helping married couples gain a new perspective of how ADD affects their relationship. Going through the workbook was like going through the story of my life. I could identify with how my ADD had unknowingly deteriorated my nine-year marriage to the point of separation. The author has ADD himself and offers very helpful and sound advice in an ADD-friendly format. I could relate to just about every situation that is encountered in a relationship and take action. This workbook has been indispensable in helping repair my relationship. This is a must-have book.

Great Resource

This a great resource for couples who are dealing with AD/HD. The book is full of great tools and exercises to help both the ADD and non-ADD partners in many areas of their realationship. The book is also very "ADD Friendly".

An excellent resource for couples-------

Michael Bell has written a much needed resource and workbook for couples struggling with the difficulties of attention deficit spectrum disorders. This workbook is full of helpful strategies that will enable intimate partners understand and negotiate the confusion of ADD---- highly recommended--William F. Wilson, Licensed Professional Counselor/Psychotherapist

A very useful book for professionals and consumers!

Michael Bell's book, "You, Your Relationship & Your ADD" is a very well-written workbook that mental health professionals will find to be a useful adjunct to treatment of persons with ADD. In this era of managed care, it is critical to assign homework outside the therapy session in order to gain the most benefit from treatment. This workbook will provide the structure necessary to enhance couple's therapy or for spouses with ADD who are in individual therapy who are interested in focusing on relationship issues. This book will aid couple's in treatment to identify issues in their relationship, prioritize them, and to address these issues in a direct manner to prevent further harm in their marriage as a result of symptoms of ADD. The many exercises that are included in this book permits couples to tackle their joint concerns in a planful, systematic manner, which should prevent them from the common problem involved in undertaking multiple relationship issues simultaneously.I highly recommend this book to couples who are willing to take a serious look at their behavioral patterns and to develop a plan of corrective action!