How Would a Professional Approach Treating an Adult with ADHD?
John is a forty-two-year-old accountant. He is married and has two kids; Jenny is ten and Jack is eight. John decided to seek services with a psychologist due to a few specific issues. At his job, he has a difficult time keeping on top of his work. He often ends up working late at night…
Read MoreThe Transition to College Starts Today
If you’re a high school senior who is planning to go away to college, consider this a training year for the independence soon to come. Taking stock of the accommodations you’re receiving in high school and ensuring you are working on your independent living skills will help you be successful in your transition. The first…
Read MoreBuilding Better Homework Habits
How to Talk to Your Kids to Promote Change There’s nothing more stressful than nagging your child each night over homework or arguing in the morning about misplaced assignments. In my nearly thirty years of helping kids with ADHD do better in school, I’ve found that nagging and lecturing a child about schoolwork might produce…
Read More“Everyone’s So Tense All the Time”
It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It “When there is no more blame or criticism in your eyes, when you are able to look at others with compassion, you see things very differently. You speak differently. The other person can sense you are truly seeing her and understanding her, and that…
Read MoreHow to Recover From a Friendship Breakup
You have to admit that being dumped hurts. It hurts that the friendship is over and it hurts to feel rejected. Every time you hear your phone ring or ping with a text message, you find yourself hoping that it’s your friend reaching out to make amends. Breaking up is hard to do at any…
Read MoreIs Doing Household Chores Related to Executive Functioning?
This research update examines two recent studies examining the link between executive functioning and involvement in household chores. Executive functioning refers to cognitive processes such as the ability to shift focus between tasks, manipulate and access temporary information, and inhibit or suppress irrelevant information. Children with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as ADHD, experience delays in executive…
Read MoreLW4K: Turning Game-Based Learning into Executive Function and Social-Emotional Learning Skills
Imagine if Minecraft, Fortnite, Roblox, and other popular video games could be used to help children with ADHD improve their executive function and social-emotional learning skills at school, at home, and in life. According to Rhode Island clinical psychologist Randy Kulman, PhD, they actually can—and he developed a program dedicated to doing just that. Known…
Read MoreParents of Very Complex Kids
Underestimated, Undervalued, and Underutilized Complex kids are children, teens, or young adults who struggle with some aspects of life, learning, or both. They may not have a diagnosis at all; they may have a single diagnosis, such as dyslexia or ADHD; or they may present with more than one coexisting condition, even three or more.…
Read MoreMeditation and Adult ADHD
How Meditation Can Help Improve Your Life Skills and Happiness Perhaps you have heard of meditation and its benefits. Perhaps you have heard that meditation can be one of the most helpful activities that a person with ADHD can do for improved life outcomes. You may say, “Sounds good. How can I get started?” If…
Read MoreTo Test or Not to Test
To test or not to test. That is the question… of this article and of college-hopeful high school students across the United States. Students today find themselves burdened with one of humankind’s great stress inducers: choice. And much like Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet soliloquizing about whether “to be” (endure the pain and agony of life) or…
Read MoreADHD and Online Higher Education Programs
During the pandemic that began in early 2020, students throughout the United States had the unique opportunity of learning through solely technological means. A learning curve was expected for students and instructors as lessons were digitalized and creative means were required to be used for students to still feel like they were in a face-to-face…
Read MoreADHD on TikTok
Battling Misinformation on Social Media Social media PROVIDES A PLACE for teens and young adults to share what it is like to live with ADHD. While this has led to more awareness about ADHD, and potentially more acceptance, there’s so much information swirling around on social media that it can be hard to separate facts from…
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