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References: Treatment Beyond Medication

  1. Cognitive behavioral therapy - Wikipedia - The therapy family behind ADHD-adapted CBT: methods, evidence, and adaptations for specific conditions.

  2. Parent management training - Wikipedia - The research tradition behind behavioral parent training, the best-evidenced intervention for young children with ADHD.

  3. Neurofeedback - Wikipedia - What neurofeedback is and the state of its contested evidence — background for this chapter's honest gray-zone verdict.

  4. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain - John J. Ratey - Little, Brown - Ratey made the exercise-as-brain-treatment case famous, assembling the dopamine and norepinephrine evidence that grounds this chapter's exercise section — and its honest "floor-raiser, not cure" framing.

  5. Mastering Your Adult ADHD (Second Edition) - Steven A. Safren, Susan Sprich, Carol A. Perlman, and Michael W. Otto - Oxford University Press - Safren's group built and trialed the standard ADHD-adapted CBT program; its modular skills-plus-cognitions design is why "ask your therapist about ADHD experience" has a good answer to point to.

  6. Treatment - CHADD - CHADD - The national resource center's treatment overviews spanning behavioral therapy, parent training, and complementary approaches.

  7. NICE Guideline NG87 - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (UK) - Evidence-graded, non-medication recommendations — including where the evidence does NOT support popular options.

  8. ADHD Evidence Project - Stephen Faraone et al. - Consensus conclusions on which treatments work, ideal for running this chapter's evidence-pyramid exercise against real claims.

  9. How to ADHD - Jessica McCabe - Practical skills-based content that models the multimodal, tools-first approach this chapter recommends alongside professional care.

  10. ADHD and Sleep - Sleep Foundation - Clinician-reviewed sleep-repair guidance, supporting this chapter's claim that sleep is the cheapest symptom reduction available.