Featuring Rosanna Breaux, PhD, LCP

Psychologist Rosanna Breaux discusses ways to reduce conflict with teens who have ADHD. Adolescents experience a host of challenges—difficulties managing their emotions, academic difficulties, social difficulties, and increased likelihood to engage in risky behaviors due to poor impulse control. Dr. Breaux offers parents tips and strategies to help them cope with emotion dysregulation in their teens and reduce family conflict.

Rosanna Breaux, PhD, LCP, focuses her research on the emotional and social functioning of children and adolescents with ADHD. She is also interested in understanding the role parents play in shaping children and adolescent’s social and emotional development. Dr. Breaux utilizes a multi-method assessment of emotional development, including behavioral ratings, behavioral observations, and psychophysiological measures of ANS activity. Additionally, Dr. Breaux is working to evaluate and disseminate the RELAX intervention for adolescents with ADHD which targets emotion dysregulation and family conflict.