A.D.D. on the Job: Making Your A.D.D. Work for You
Author: Lynn, Ph.D. Weiss
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ISBN: 0878339175
Publisher: Taylor Pub (March, 1996)
Sales Rank: 67,002
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Positive Approach to ADD At Work
The author, a psychologist with ADD, recommends ways to handle ADD at work. Describes how ADD affects the employee, how to get organized, how to get along with peers and the boss, and options such as self-employment. Is also helpful for people who are not ADD and must work with ADD people. Describes three types of ADD: Outwardly Expressive, Inwardly Directed, and Highly Structured. This book does an excellent job of covering the emotional reactions to having ADD and how to handle them. Takes a positive approach. Adapted from Annotated Bibliography of Learning A Living; A guide to Planning Your Career and Finding A Job for People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Dyslexia by Dale S. Brown
Rating: 5 out of 5
Wonderful!
At last someone who looks on ADD as something positive, rather than a disease. Bravo! I gained much self confidence reading this book. It is great even if you do not work. Never forget your ADD makes you special and unique!
Rating: 3 out of 5
helpful guidance on how to choose the right work environment
This book deals more with choosing the right work environment than giving practical suggestions on how to thrive in your current work environment, given that you are ADD. Weiss pays much attention to choosing the right career and self-employment, and offers tips on how to be successfully self-employed. She uses many one-two paragraph anecdotes of individuals who were either successful or unsuccessful, based on how they dealt with one aspect of their ADD. Weiss does address ADD issues that affect performance and effectiveness in the workplace, but I felt her advice was a bit superficial -- perhaps in a super-caring, ideal work environment, some of the suggestions might work, but in the average work environment, chronic disorganization and lateness will probably result in termination. Her suggestions for enlisting the help of others to deal with these problems may work in a few enviromnents, particularly where the ADD person is highly valued, but I think the suggestions would fall flat in most environments. Overall, the book is probably work reading to help you realize how your work behaviors are common to people with ADD and to learn about how other people have adapted -- but the book won't solve all your workplace problems attributable to ADD. Similar Products
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