About ADD Self-Management™ Center
The ADHD Self-Management Center Online draws from the knowledge base of the Tarnow Center for Self-ManagementSM, owned and directed by Dr. Jay Tarnow, board certified Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist. This multi-disciplinary clinic, located in Houston, Texas, specializes in ADHD, Learning Disorders, and related issues.
Recently, Dr. Tarnow has teamed up with his daughter, Myah Tarnow Gittelson, Psy.D, a certified Cogmed Coach, to offer a new form of non-medication treatment for ADHD children. What makes this team so powerful is the fact that they both have successfully dealt with these very same problems to some degree in their own lives.
Dr. Tarnow and the clinicians at the Tarnow Center collaborated to create the proprietary Self–Management™ Treatment Program, an extremely successful pragmatic program that develops long-term coping skills for leading a successful life…in spite of having ADHD difficulties.
Jay Tarnow, M.D.
Medical Director, Tarnow Center for Self-ManagementSM
Dr. Tarnow is a board certified Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist. He is both a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Psychiatric Association. Having spent 30 years researching ADHD from a biological, psychological, and social perspective, Dr. Tarnow is considered a leading national expert on this disorder. He has done many clinical research trials of medications to treat ADHD for the FDA. He has developed a non- medicine treatment program that deals with the specific manifestations of ADHD/ADD, which interfere with the patient's long-term coping and success or failure in life. This Self-Management™ Program has been successfully used with thousands of patients who Dr. Tarnow has followed from childhood through adulthood. Where applicable, Dr. Tarnow utilizes traditional medications and alternative medical treatments, such as food supplements and acupuncture.
To date, Dr Tarnow has trained thousands of doctors, psychologists, MSW's, LPC's, Speech and Language Pathologists, and Educators. Presently, he is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical School. He is also well known for his expertise in developing cost-effective health programs and has been a consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health and healthcare corporations.
Historically, Dr. Tarnow has served as Executive Director of the Houston Child Guidance Center and as Director of Child Psychiatry Training at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. He was also the Director of Pediatric Psychiatry at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. He was a City Commissioner on the Houston Human Services Advisory Council and was an active member of the Mayor's Task Force on Drug Abuse and Children. He has served on the Board of the American Association of Psychiatric Services for Children and was the President of the Houston Society of Adolescent Psychiatry.
Myah Tarnow Gittelson, Psy.D.
Certified Cogmed Coach
Dr. Gittelson was awarded her doctorate degree from the California School of Professional Psychology program at Alliant International University. She received clinical training in the area of Child and Family Psychotherapy, with an emphasis on Play Therapy. Dr. Gittelson has adopted the Self-Management™ model to use with children and families who are struggling with executive functioning skills, including her own 4-year-old daughter.
In addition, Dr. Gittelson provides a full complement of psychological services in private practice in the Charlotte, North Carolina area. Besides her interest and research into non-medication approaches to ADHD and Learning Disorders she provides psychotherapy for women experiencing prenatal and postpartum mood disorders (an area she researched in depth for her published doctoral thesis).