Class members will:

• Describe how ADHD is defined in the DSM-5 (book used by doctors in diagnosing psychological conditions)
• Understand common myths and facts about children with ADHD
• Learn the attention process
• Describe executive functions of the brain
• Analyze ADHD factors to think about when diagnosing and managing ADHD
• Compare other disorders that mimic ADHD
• Describe common co-occurring disorders with ADHD
• Explain diagnosing ADHD, including diagnosing the inattentive, predominately hyperactive/impulsive and combined presentations
• List problems that may be experienced by untreated ADHD
• Discuss ADHD with your child or teen with ADHD

Upon completion of the course, you will:

• Understand current executive function impairments and their relationship to ADHD
• List ways to improve organizing, prioritizing, and getting started
• Describe ways to help your child to Focus on Tasks
• Understand how to help your child Stay Alert when working on tasks
• List ways to help your child manage frustration and emotions
• Describe ways to Improve working memory
• Understand how to Improve Self-Regulation

Upon completion of the course, you will:

• Understand ways to teach your child how to transition into homework time
• Demonstrate ways to help your child understand what to do
• List ways to help your child focus on their assignments
• Describe ways to help your child to estimate completion times and then write out the plan
• Use various strategies to put your child onto the path of homework completion independence

Upon completion of the course, you will:

• Discover if college is the next step after high school graduation
• Understand how involved you should be in the process
• Evaluate colleges with your teen
• Choose the tests that help your teen prepare and understand how test scores impact admissions and aid opportunities
• Demonstrate essential life skills that teens should know before leaving home and living on campus
• Discover ways to pay for college
• Analyze and learn how to negotiate financial aid options
• Understand how admissions staff evaluates college applications
• Summarize the tips to guide teens on how to fill out the application, write the essay, answer questions, prepare for interviews, and get letters of recommendation

Class members will:

• Describe the reason why people with ADHD have an increased risk for SUD
• Understand the risk factors and the proactive approaches to managing the risk
• Describe the right ADHD treatment for your child
• Analyze medication concerns
• Describe resiliency skills that will help a child be more successful and say no to drugs and other risky behaviors
• Describe the ADHD approach for people with ADHD with our without cooccurring SUD
• Explain the difference between misuse vs. abuse
• Describe misunderstanding and facts
• Understand why people misuse medication
• List tips to help students protect their medication and what students can say if asked to share or sell their prescription medication

Class members will:

• Describe the differences in the brain of a child with ADHD and without ADHD
• Understand the two significant differences in the brain when someone has ADHD
• Learn about the lag in maturity of a child with ADHD
• Describe how genetics is one of the causes of ADHD
• List the environmental factors that are associated with ADHD
• Analyze the ADHD evaluation timeline
• Compare the different types of assessments used in ADHD evaluations
• Describe the different types of professionals who can perform a comprehensive assessment
• Explain how to choose the right professional
• List what a comprehensive assessment should include
• Discuss ADHD with your child or teen with ADHD

Class members will:

• Define multimodal treatment
• List the components a multimodal treatment approach for ADHD might include
• Explain the importance of ongoing treatment for ADHD
• Describe health professional recommendations for treatment of children with ADHD
• List how medication can help with ADHD symptoms
• Describe what medication doesn’t do
• List the two main categories of medication for ADHD
• Explain the difference between short- and long- acting medications
• Describe the goal of medication for ADHD
• Explain how you would monitor medication
• Identify the answers to commonly asked questions about ADHD medication
• Describe how psychosocial treatment can help with ADHD
• List four types of psychosocial treatment
• Describe the goal of behavior therapy
• Explain what topics might be learned during parent training
• Describe how social skills training might occur
• Explain the difference between complementary and alternative treatment
• Describe how to assess complementary and alternative treatments for ADHD
• List several complementary and/or alternative treatments for ADHD

Class members will:

• Describe the challenges that children with ADHD have with self-control (self-regulation)
• Understand the common behavior deficits that are related to ADHD
• Learn about the common language disorders that co-occur with ADHD
• Describe how challenges with executive functioning are related to "inner language"
• Explain why structure and routine are important for children with ADHD
• Compare the different types of environments that result in chaos and stress for families
• Analyze how a parent's ADHD affects the home environment
• Describe the feelings and reactions that a sibling may experience
• Describe how ADHD affects the parents' relationship and why they disagree
• Explain proactive and reactive strategies
• Describe behavior management strategies
• Understand communication strategies
• Learn about structure and routines
• Describe organization tips and strategies
• Explain parenting strategies when the parent has ADHD
• List parenting and behavior strategies to use for siblings without ADHD
• Analyze parent cooperation strategies

Class members will:

• Identify how ADHD affects learning
• Describe challenges children with ADHD experience at school
• Explain how to develop good home-school communication
• Customize a home-school communication tracker
• Describe the difference between accommodations and interventions
• List different accommodations for each challenge children with ADHD may experience at school
• List the steps to take when a child with ADHD is having difficulty at school
• Explain the importance of submitting all requests in writing and keeping records of all communication
• Describe an academic evaluation
• Identify what to include in a request for an evaluation
• Explain what happens after a request for an evaluation is submitted
• Communicate the answers to frequently asked questions about academic evaluations
• Define Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Explain eligibility requirements for Section 504
• Describe what Section 504 provides
• Define Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
• Explain eligibility requirements for IDEA
• Describe what IDEA provides
• Explain the re-evaluation requirements for Section 504 and IDEA
• Describe the special procedures related to discipline under Section 504 and IDEA

This e-book is designed to supplement the Parent to Parent: Family Training on ADHD program. From articles to worksheets, this e-book provides the information parents need to help their family.