Introduction
Final Thoughts: A Personal Perspective
Supplemental Resources
Index
About the Author
About the Cartoonists
Vincent J. Monastra, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and
director of the FPI Attention Disorders Clinic in Endicott, New
York. During the past 25 years, he has conducted a series of
studies involving thousands of individuals with disorders of
attention and behavioral control. He is the coinventor of a
quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) process that was
approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in the
diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a
pioneer in the development of parenting and EEG-based attention
training procedures, and the author of numerous scientific articles
and book chapters. The first edition of his book Parenting Children
With ADHD: Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach (2 5) was named
Parenting Book of the Year by IParenting, and his book Unlocking
the Potential of Patients With ADHD: A Model for Clinical Practice
(2 8) provides a model for comprehensive, effective, and practical
community-based care for patients with ADHD. His skills as a master
diagnostician and therapist have been internationally recognized
and are archived in several educational videotaped programs,
including Working With Children With ADHD (2 5). He has been a
faculty member of Wilson Hospital's Family Practice Residency
Program the Department of Psychology at Binghamton University and,
most recently, the Graduate School of Counseling and Clinical
Psychology at Marywood University. Dr. Monastra is the recipient of
several scientific awards, including the President's Award and the
Hans Berger Award from the Association for Applied Psychophysiology
and Biofeedback for his seminal research into the
neurophysiological characteristics of ADHD and his groundbreaking
study on EEG biofeedback. He was listed among the country's most
innovative researchers in the Reader's Digest 2 4 edition of amp
quot Medical Breakthroughs. amp quot
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