ADHD Parenting Workshop

Session #1: The most effective plan for ADHD management

What ADD/ADHD is & isn’t

  • A look at the DSM 5
  • What the DSM 5 is missing
  • Understanding the executive functions
  • Mirror traits: Two sides to every coin
  • ADHD: A genetically influenced neurological condition.
  • Knowledge is not power.
 

Session #2: Creating a user friendly environment

  • Change how we view ADHD in a child and the child will change
  • 5 steps for continuous success
  • How to use VITALS and SMART goals.
  • Positive reinforcement and compliments
  • Emotional health in adults stems from childhood
 

Session # 3: Baskets – Parents’ Control Center

  • Developing cognitive skills
  • Problem solving together
  • Moving away from solutionizing
  • Skills for life
  • Effective communication skills
  • Synergizing
  • Validating
 

Session #5: Treatment of ADHD

  • Medication optimization
  • What the psychiatrists won’t tell you
  • Brain development on medicine
  • O.P.A.
  • Mindfulness
  • Exercise
  • Vitamins
  • Externalizing structure, reminders, and accountability
 

Session #5: Treatment of ADHD, All options considered

  • Medication optimization
  • What the psychiatrists won’t tell you
  • Brain development on medicine
  • O.P.A.
  • Mindfulness
  • Exercise
  • Vitamins
  • Externalizing structure, reminders, and accountability
 

Session #6: Just when we thought we had it all under control

  • Managing the storm after the calm
  • Expectation and advance preparation
  • The marathon vs. the sprint
  • DBT skills
  • The inevitable SLIP & SLIDE
  • Interpreting situations correctly