Includes bibliographical references and index.

Love: the essential strength -- Loving your child in the face of opposition -- Developing empathy: what it's like to be a kid with ADD -- The right kind of help -- From moral to deficit-based to strength-based thinking -- Emphasizing the positive: in action -- Mirror traits: what's good in what's bad -- The cycle of excellence: a method for unwrapping gifts -- Conation: a new way of tapping into every child's strengths -- The Kolbe model in action -- What to tell the school? -- Schools that get it right -- Making a diagnosis and composing a treatment plan, including new, alternative approaches -- A collaboration convened: please join!