Full Course Description

ADHD at Work: Strategies to Help Clients Survive & Thrive in Their Careers

Your clients show up late to session, seem to forget skills taught the week before and struggle to stay on track with treatment goals.

Unfortunately, these clients bring the same problems to their professional lives…

Their career history details a graveyard of failed aspirations - perfection that leads to procrastination, an inability to take feedback from colleagues and a lack of follow through on day-to-day office tasks.

Be the therapist that radically changes your clients’ lives by giving them essential skills to finally succeed at work.

Join ADHD expert Ari Tuckman to get essential and advanced strategies to help your adult clients with ADHD:

Make wise disclosures with colleagues – when & how
Take feedback without intense emotional reactions
Balance their strengths & weaknesses to excel at work
Meet deadlines by feeling the future in the present moment
Avoid perfection & procrastinate with motivation
Clarify career priorities & actually achieve them!

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Objectives

Appraise strategies that help clients to be more productive by deeply understanding how to work with their ADHD.
Practice strategies that help clients resolve conflicts, clarify priorities & create a successful work environment.
Support clients in making decisions regarding who to disclose their ADHD to, when & how at work.

Copyright : 10/05/2022

ADHD in the Family: Interventions for Parents at Home & in the Classroom

Parenting becomes that much harder for your clients who have ADHD.

And, when these parents have children diagnosed with ADHD or a partner with ADHD… You have so many dynamics to manage in therapy…

You need to have the skills to be the go-to expert for helping these individuals and families.

Join Ari Tuckman, PsyD, CST, and get strategies to support your clients individually and in family therapy. You’ll learn how to:

Help parents & kids set boundaries, prioritize goals & organize daily tasks
Keep kids motivated with a step-by-step method
Prepare families with a framework for regular check-ins
Know when to have individual or conjoint sessions
Help parents depersonalize the impact of their child’s diagnosis
Support clients whose partner has ADHD

Plus, equip families with the tools to support kids’ self-management skills during launch years, gap-years & more!

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Objectives

Apply a coherent model to helping parents navigate the demands of raising kids with ADHD into independence.
Apply a coherent model to helping kids, teens, and young adults to earn the independence that they desire.
Practice evidence-based strategies to support parents and their children with ADHD through individual & family therapy.

Copyright : 10/05/2022

Time Management & Executive Functioning Strategies for Adults with ADHD

Often adult ADHD clients’ poor time management negatively impacts therapy…

They’re late for sessions, struggling to anticipate rewards or consequences of their actions and procrastinating on executing homework or practicing new skills.

Helping these clients manage time takes a highly developed therapeutic skill set.

Join Ari Tuckman, PsyD, CST, to get the education and skills you need to keep these clients on track in therapy and life. You’ll learn advanced skills to:

Help clients set deadlines – and stick to them
Customizable strategies for the 6 executive functions impacted by ADHD
Get clients motivated by “feeling the future”
Convert intentions into action
Work effective with client’s “time horizon” and “temporal discounting”

Get the skills to help your adult clients with ADHD combat the life interruptions that executive function and time management problems create.

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Objectives

Develop client self-awareness by explaining the impacts of ADHD on time awareness and executive functions.
Formulate strategies for individual clients based on the impact of ADHD on time horizon and temporal discounting.
Construct strategies for individual clients based on the impact of ADHD on six executive functions.

Copyright : 17/05/2022

ADHD & Couples Therapy: Foster Trust, Follow-Through & More

By the time couples struggling with ADHD come to your office their relationship is a tangled mess.

Each partner blames the other and both feel powerless.

Your work is to help these couples re-balance desires, competing needs and find joy.

You can make it easier to help these clients confront their problems, and even get the skills to address “uncomfortable” topics, like sexual satisfaction.

Join Ari Tuckman, PsyD, CST, for an in-depth training that explores the most intimate parts of relationships impacted by ADHD. From Ari’s expertise you’ll walk away with a highly refined skill set including how to:

Balance the under/over-functioner dynamic
Help clients find sexual acceptance and enjoyment
Get couples to let go of the past & focus on the future
Help each client get their needs met – especially when they’re in opposition
Transform your couple’s troubled partnerships into happy, healthy and thriving relationships.

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Objectives

Assess each romantic partner’s contribution to the under-/over-functioner dynamic.
Facilitate creating sustainable agreements between partners.
Formulate interventions to help couples overcome barriers to shared positive experiences.

Copyright : 17/05/2022

ADHD Medication & Non-medication Interventions: Maximize Brain Function & Create Healthy Habits

If you’re a therapist, educator or care provider who has questions about ADHD medication…

You’re not alone.

Many therapists struggle to get their clients to comply with their medication routine, overcome resistance, move beyond misconceptions AND instill new healthy habits.

Make it easier on yourself. Join renowned ADHD expert Ari Tuckman for an in-depth look at ADHD medication – the good, the bad, and everything in between. You’ll walk away with skills that help you:

Gain confidence with medication options – stimulants & non-stimulants
Identify misuse, abuse and dependency
Understand how delaying treatment can damage your clients
Develop healthy habits in your clients’ lives – diet, exercise & sleep
Help your clients weigh the pros and cons of medication

Advance your knowledge of ADHD medication and help your clients at any stage of ADHD treatment.

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Objectives

Appraise pros and cons of medication use for each unique client.
Propose various treatment options for clients and facilitate their discussion with a prescriber.
Formulate interventions to overcome clients’ barriers and challenges to better managing sleep, diet, exercise, and other health matters.

Copyright : 07/06/2022

Neurology Drives Psychology in ADHD Clients: Promote Resilience, Self-Regulation & Overcome Common Roadblocks

As a therapist overcoming the impact of ADHD on your client’s mindset and self-esteem can feel impossible.

These clients are often stuck in rationalizations that keep them from moving forward… “I can do it tomorrow… I don’t need to go to sleep… This will just take a minute…”

Join ADHD expert Ari Tuckman to get innovative treatment tools to help free your clients from the shackles of unmanaged ADHD. Walk away with strategies to help clients:

Confront challenges & make life easier by avoiding less
Understand ADHD without letting it be an excuse
Overcome perfectionism and accept “good enough”
Develop both skills & motivation to change

Move your clients out of common ADHD pitfalls into improved integrity, self-honesty, self-esteem, agency & more.

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Objectives

Build strong and resilient self-esteem in their clients.
Formulate interventions to overcome the five mindset traps most common to clients with ADHD.
Develop techniques to overcome the eight rationalizations of the moment most likely to stall clients’ progress.

Copyright : 07/06/2022

ADHD & Emotional Regulation: Updated Diagnostic Considerations, Assessment, CBT, DBT Skills & More

ADHD often leads your clients to fixate on negative thoughts, experiences and emotions.

Seemingly small obstacles, like misplaced keys, can lead to full-on emotional meltdowns.

Help your clients resist responding to roadblocks with emotional intensity.

Marcy Caldwell, PsyD. expert on ADHD and emotional regulation, walks you through step-by-step instructions for how to help your emotionally dysregulated clients. Get the training and skills to:

Create a map with “personal road signs” to help clients maintain therapeutic gains
Treat clients with comorbid diagnoses: anxiety, depression, PTSD bipolar, borderline & more
Help clients turn down the volume on shame, anger, anxiety, rejection & more

PLUS, explore case studies to help you navigate your client’s real-world obstacles!

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Objectives

Apply evidence-based, ADHD-friendly clinical strategies to help reduce ADHD emotional dysregulation.
Distinguish emotional regulation resulting from ADHD from similar and comorbid conditions.
Assess the ways in which ADHD brains process emotion differently from neurotypical brains.

Copyright : 16/06/2022

ADHD Assessment for Adults: Overcome Treatment Obstacles, Identify Co-Morbidities & Resolve Diagnostic Dilemmas

When ADHD is misdiagnosed or undiagnosed it presents tremendous life challenges for your clients…

Struggles at work, parenting and relationships can destroy your client’s self-esteem leaving them feeling hopeless.

Get the education to give your clients a path toward thriving in life.

Join Harvard-trained Dr. Roberto Olivardia to go beyond DSM-5^® diagnostic criteria and dive into expert assessment. You’ll learn:

The right questions to make assessment quicker & easier!
ADHD screening & assessments – plus, their limitations
How the ADHD brain works in a language your client can understand
Best practices for identifying learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, mood disorders, eating disorders & MORE!

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Objectives

Theorize how aspects of the ADHD brain help explain its symptoms.
Investigate components of a thorough clinical assessment for ADHD.
Diagnose symptoms and features of various co-morbid disorders and conditions (i.e. learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, substance abuse and addictive disorders, and eating disorders).
Determine differential factors between ADHD and the comorbid disorders and conditions.

Copyright : 03/06/2022

Essential Tools & Skills for Women with ADHD: Specialized Assessment & Comprehensive Treatment Strategies

While it’s easy to miss an ADHD diagnosis in your female clients… these missed or late diagnoses can destroy your clients’ lives.

It doesn’t have to be this way… you can be a part of the solution.

Help your female clients by getting expert training that gives you concrete, how-to interventions to overcome biases in research, assessments, society and even your own perception of what ADHD symptoms “should look like.”

Join renowned therapist and author Michelle Frank, PhD and elevate your skill set in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of complex comorbidities particular to women. In this comprehensive training you’ll explore:

The impact of pregnancy, motherhood, PMDD, hormones & other biological processes on ADHD
How to help clients prevent risk factors like SUDs, domestic violence & more
Gender roles and how they influence perception of ADHD
Treating co-occurring conditions such as eating disorders, depression, suicidality & more
Redefining treatment goals to increase self-esteem and self-efficacy

Women with ADHD have gotten the short end of the stick for far too long… Sharpen your skill set and stop missing important cues!

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Objectives

Build competence in identifying possible ADHD in women to make any necessary referrals and/or provide basic psychoeducation to a client.
Appraise the complexity of how ADHD presents in women.
Assess 3 common areas of concern or distress/impairment for women with ADHD seeking therapy.
Differentiate comorbid conditions from ADHD symptoms to apply appropriate treatment interventions.

Mindfulness Strategies for ADHD: Integrate Neuroscience, Awareness Practices & Self-Compassion into Treatment

Supporting clients with ADHD is more than just referring them to a medication provider, seeing them once a week and monitoring symptoms.

You need to give your clients concrete solutions they can use not just throughout their day… but throughout their life.

Help clients’ get their lives on track by teaching them techniques for hyperactivity, distractibility, stress, overwhelm, emotional regulation and more.

Discover evidence-based, easy-to-implement mindfulness strategies for holistic treatment. Join ADHD and mindfulness expert Lidia Zylowska, MD, for a powerful training where you’ll gain the skills to:

Overcome the 5 most common barriers clients encounter

Customize “MAPS for ADHD” to create upward spirals

Manage emotional triggers with calendar planning & reflecting

Help clients balance acceptance and change

Create harmony in your client’s relationships with improved listening & communication

Structure individual and group mindfulness for ADHD sessions

Don’t keep your clients with ADHD waiting, get effective mindfulness-based interventions now!

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Objectives

Practice using the structure of a Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) for ADHD Program.
Practice formal and informal mindfulness strategies to strengthen aspects of self-regulation in ADHD.
Analyze how mindful awareness can help with diverse aspects negatively affected by ADHD such as self-concept, relationships, and lifestyle.

Treating ADHD in Diverse Populations: Strategies for Adults, Kids & Collaborating with Care Teams

Disparities in care for clients with ADHD from diverse backgrounds don’t have to exist.

You can be a part of closing the gap in treatment inequality. The solution is right here…

Get expert training to understand, recognize, assess and treat culturally diverse clients with ADHD.

Commit to not missing cues, symptoms, and giving the highest standard of care to all your clients by joining Brandi Walker, PhD, for a comprehensive training on ADHD in communities of color. Sit alongside Brandi and explore:

Real world case studies with complex, intersectional identifies of both clients & therapists
Familial dynamics that impact development and treatment of ADHD
How to build rapport and trust across cultural differences
Strategies for collaborating with caregivers and care teams
Ways to overcome disparities in medication management, access to treatment & more

Make sure you have the interventions to help any client coming through your door.

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Objectives

Analyze health disparities as they pertain to ADHD diagnoses within socially diverse populations.
Evaluate the health, mental health, and social problems that result from assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of ADHD when health disparities are present.
Investigate current research studies and their findings.
Develop understanding of the diversity in family dynamics and its influence on treatment/interventions and quality of life outcomes for clients with ADHD.
Apply a transcultural model to assessment and treatment of ADHD .

Live Panel with Q&A

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Objectives

Help couples & individuals in relationships when ADHD is present through the use of strengths-based interventions that prioritize communication and creating balance between partners.
Propose strategies to help parents align with one other and their child in meeting treatment goals.
Develop and utilize appropriate psychoeducation tools and materials to help clients under their diagnosis and prognosis throughout treatment.

Live Panel with Q&A

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Objectives

Investigate the impact of underdiagnosis of ADHD in women to enhance assessment and treatment planning.
Evaluate how increased availability of online medication services and providers has impacted prescription of ADHD medications for clients.
Formulate assessment and treatment skills with enhanced cultural competence.