Educational psychologist Hannelie Spies explains how she supports teenagers and university students with ADHD by helping them improve their Executive Functioning, and by using BWRT® to address the emotional challenges caused by living with ADHD. These traumas include being misunderstood, bullying, low self-worth, anger issues, depression, and general, social or exam anxiety. Case studies illustrate the efficacy of this parallel approach.

Do you know someone who is particularly choosy about food, avoids crowds in shopping malls, struggles with eye-hand coordination, or has difficulty functioning in an open-plan office? The cause could be sensory integration dysfunction or SID. Occupational therapist Charlene Cruickshank describes sensory discrimination and modulation, the two extremes of poor sensory processing, and how this disorder is identified and treated.

Some children’s defiance has a neurological basis - it could be Oppositional Defiance Disorder, or ODD. A general practitioner with a special interest in neurological conditions describes what ODD is, which signs to look for, how it is diagnosed, and how it can be treated. Parents of children with ODD require additional support.  

Met aandagafleibaarheid/hiperaktiwiteit is ons almal bekend, maar nie met begaafdheid nie. Gesinsberader en “transformational parenting coach” Mia von Scha skets die eienskappe van begaafdes, watter toestande of kwessies met ADHD verwar kan word, die voor- en nadele van “giftedness” en hoe om hierdie kinders te hanteer. Daarby het begaafde kinders meermale begaafde ouers!

Gooi die mense om jou se fisieke of emosionele swaarkry jou van balans? Put groepe jou uit? Ooreet jy om emosionele stres hok te slaan? Lees ‘n Amerikaanse psigiater se siening oor empate se besonderse eienskappe en haar wenke rakende hul uitdagings, verhouding met kos, en romantiese verbintenisse.