Dr. Blake Please share your proven and tested evidence-based techniques, skills & methods that can be easily applied with your adult ADHD Clients to You can immediately improve your quality of life.
Kevin Blake – Adult ADHD, Targeting Executive Skills to Manage ADHD in Adults
A young man calls you to Set up an appointment to tell the boss that he lost his job, and that in the past nine years, he’s lost, or been asked questions. to Eight jobs were vacated. He does not turn up at the appointed time. He leaves a voicemail later that day, apologizing for missing his appointment and asking for forgiveness. to reschedule. He says that even if the appointment had been remembered, he wouldn’t have made it due to having lost his keys. He is 20 minutes late so the appointment is rescheduled. As he sits down, he shares with us that he has been issued over 50 citations and received a speeding ticket while on his way. Also, he doesn’t understand why he keeps losing his jobs, as he was always known to You can make many sales. He described a series of turbulent relationships with lovers, even saying that one girlfriend said he was. “reliably unreliable.” He seems disorganized, anxious, and demoralized. Talking incessantly and not seeming to be able to Tell a story in a logical sequence.
Adults Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often come to We look forward to seeing you in They hope to make their lives easier and improve their day.-to-daily interactions with others. They want what they really need to Change is not something you know how to do. You know your routine strategies to But will it suffice? Are you equipped with the necessary tools to Make real changes in their lives and help them to feel better.
Dr. Blake Please share your proven and tested evidence-based techniques, skills & methods that can be easily applied with your adult ADHD Clients to You can immediately improve your quality of life. The most recent strategies will be revealed to you to The core problem of difficulty is the impairment of executive function. in Adults with ADHD. These practical, straightforward instructions are simple to apply methods will help your adult clients improve their time/task management, personal organization, & planning, thus improving many aspects of their life including employment, relationships, physical & mental health, grooming, driving, parenting, etc. Dr. Blake You will also learn how to You can coordinate your treatment with other needed professionals such as doctors, speech therapists, and others.-Language therapists and professional organizers ADHD Coaches, job coaches and academic tutors are some of the many services offered by career counselors.
- Find out what the executive function is and why it’s so important to Time management, planning and organization as it relates to Treatment in Clinical practice
- Analyze what Adult ADHD Executive function is negatively affected in Relation to Assessment and treatment results.
- How to? ADHDInattentive Presentation, or Sluggish Cognitive Tempo, is a different kind of presentation. ADHD This is it in The DSM-5® and communicate why this is important as it relates to treatment planning.
- Check out the assessment tools available to identify deficits in executive functioning, to You can make a better decision about the treatment you choose.
- Implement strategies to Adults with disabilities can be helped ADHD With their executive function problems in The workplace in Relations are important and in parenting.
- Identify the best strategies to foster executive function development and intervene when there are executive function problems.
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Diagnose ADHD & Measure EF in Adults
Diagnosis
- The Big 3
- Rating scales
- Questionnaires
- Semi-Interviews structured
- Impairment Index
- Collaterals
Measuring EF
- Adult executive functioning inventory
- Short-A
- Comprehensive executive function inventory
- WAIS-IV and WJ-IV
- NIH toolbox cognition battery
- Barkley’s rating scales
Adult ADHD Treatment
The Big 4 & 4 Steps
- The therapeutic effect of diagnosis
- Medication-Genetic testing
- Psychoeducation
- Accommodation
- Comorbidities: ADHD, Inattentive presentation-A slow, restrictive cognitive pace
- Specific Learning Disorder
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Sleep disorders
- Depression & anxiety
- Personality disorders
EF Techniques & Strategies
Organization, Planning & Time Management
- Clinical Interventions to Order to The disorganized mind
- The 30 to 40% rule for inattention, impulsivity/hyperactivity & ADHD
Impulse Control & Self-Regulation
- CBT & internalized speech
- Overcoming guilt & shame
- Automatize behavior
- What about mindfulness?
- Relaxation skills
Enhance Focus, Attention & Working Memory
- ”Neurotypical” Do not forget vs. ADHD forgetting
- Chunking, mnemonics & other memory techniques
- Multisensory memory
- Loci
- Self-testing & self-Imagine it!
- N-Back
- 5 ways to Cognitive load can be reduced
- Technological prosthetics-Assistive technology
Stop Executive Dysfunction from Sabotaging Your Clients’ Relationships
- Adult relationships are affected by EF problems
- Goal setting
- Self-monitoring & self-Talk
- Social skills training
- Conflict resolution skills
- Anger identification
- Decode facial expressions & body language
- Accurate facial expressions
- Better follow through with medical issues & self-care
- Tips to remember special dates, etc.
For the Workplace & Home
- ADHD work difficulties
- Career counseling
- Controlling clutter is easy
- Job coach & supervision; advocacy?
- Social skills, self-esteem & education
- Training & adult education accommodations
- ”Best” ADHD jobs
Risks & Limitations
Here’s what you’ll get in Kevin Blake – Adult ADHD, Targeting Executive Skills to Manage ADHD in Adults
Course Features
- Lectures 1
- Quizzes 0
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
