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Russell Barkley, Ph.D., on ADHD in Children and Adolescents: Advances in Diagnosis, Treatment and Management
Watch world-renowned ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley in a 3-hour seminar highlighting new insights in the diagnosis, treatment and management of ADHD. Packed with recent research and practical application, this webcast is a must-see for anyone who works with kids and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD
Follow along with Dr. Barkley as he walks you through:
- His latest research findings and what that means for treatment and management of ADHD today
- How to differentiate between ADHD and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) – and why it matters
- The startling correlation between untreated ADHD and premature, severe health problems
- Why an ADHD diagnosis lends itself to significant health problems and shorter life expectancy
- The evolution of ADHD as more than just an educational or mental health problem
- 14 best principles for managing ADHD in children and teens
- An update on the most recent evidence-based treatment recommendations
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from a legend in the mental health field!
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Objectives
- Determine the health problems that are negatively affected by ADHD and how to use this knowledge to appropriately revise intervention approaches.
- Evaluate the diagnostic criteria of ADHD to the clinical features of SCT as suggested in the most recent literature.
- Analyze 14 principles that will promote better executive functioning and self-regulation for children and teens with ADHD.
The Two Attention Disorders: Identifying, Diagnosing, and Managing ADHD vs. SCT
In this program Dr. Barkley provides detailed information on the specific nature of ADHD symptoms and the current DSM5 diagnostic criteria for ADHD. He then reviews the various modifications necessary for updating the DSM criteria and making them more useful and rigorous with special populations (girls, adults, etc.). Dr. Barkley then addresses the issue of subtyping of ADHD along with the emerging conclusion that one form of the inattentive type may constitute a new disorder known in research as sluggish cognitive tempo or sometimes called ADD by clinicians.
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Objectives
- Characterize the specific nature of the inhibition and attention deficits in ADHD
- Apply DSM-5 criteria effectively to accurately diagnose ADHD and develop successful treatment interventions
- Utilize modifications to DSM-5 criteria to improve diagnostic rigor and identification of Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT)
- Discriminate effectively between ADHD and SCT
Oppositional, Defiant & Disruptive Children and Adolescents: Non-medication Approaches to the Most Challenging Behaviors
Children and adolescents with ODD, ADHD, Asperger’s, anxiety, mood, and disruptive disorders provide constant clinical, school and parenting challenges.
In this recording, you'll learn new, effective non-medication strategies for your client’s most challenging behaviors including:
- Tantrums
- Running out/away
- Noncompliance
- Nagging
- Refusing to work/help
- Yelling/screaming
- Bullying
- Panic/anxiety reactions
- Lack of follow-through
- Not following directions
You will walk away with immediate strategies for out of control behaviors and techniques for emotional regulation along with long-term treatment strategies to help kids at home and school.
Jennifer Wilke-Deaton is a clinical expert and has worked with the most challenging kids both in clinical and school settings.
Through the use of case studies and action-oriented handouts, you will leave this live webcast with solutions to turn your most challenging kids around.
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Objectives
- Utilize clinical strategies to reduce the frequency, duration and severity of behavioural episodes that challenge therapists, educators, professionals and parents.
- Implement both proactive and reactive strategies for oppositional, defiant and disruptive behaviour in children and youth.
- Discriminate between the clinical presentation of behavioural episodes and psychiatric symptoms to inform treatment.
- Communicate how a skilled observation of behaviour informs your treatment approach.
- Develop clinical skills for establishing a therapeutic rapport to overcome treatment resistance in children and adolescents.
- Effectively develop a behaviour intervention plan and safety plan across all settings including home and school.
Advances in the Management of ADHD
The past 10-15 years have witnessed a number of major developments in the medications and delivery systems available for the management of ADHD. Dr. Russell Barkley discusses the types of medications now available for ADHD management and the various delivery systems developed to extend the effectiveness of the medications across the day. For each medication, he will present the major beneficial effects and side effects. He will also discuss various issues clinicians should consider in selecting medications to use with a patient with ADHD, such as those issues related to the social context, the patient’s characteristics, and any comorbid conditions that may exist.
This recording then moves on to an overview of the science-based approaches to the psychosocial management of ADHD. It also discusses those treatments that, while popular, have little evidence for their effectiveness in managing the disorder.
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Objectives
- Assess and characterize the utility of current FDA approved ADHD management medications for symptom management
- Discriminate between effective and unproven adjunctive ADHD interventions and its treatment implications
- Articulate the beneficial effects and potential side effects associated with ADHD medications in relation to assessment and treatment planning
Alternative Learners and "Outside the Box" Thinkers
With remote and hybrid learning on the rise, students who are considered “alternative learners” – those with ADHD, Autism, and learning disabilities – are facing unprecedented challenges as they pivot to meet the demands of this new educational era.
Watch Dr. Sharon Saline in this recording that dives into practical, collaborative tools for addressing the educational and mental health concerns of kids who learn differently. Packed with insight and concrete strategies, this program will prepare you, your clients/students, and their families for a successful school year, including how to:
- Navigate remote, in-person, and hybrid learning models that aren’t designed with them in mind
- Increase motivation, goal-directed persistence, time management, and organizational skills
- Identify potential mental health issues related to learning challenges for non-neurotypical children and adolescents
- Support families — create effective daily routines, manage stress, and build connection
If you work with kids and teens, this training is a must! Purchase today!
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Objectives
- Assess for potential mental health issues related to learning challenges for non-neurotypical children and adolescents.
- Utilize interventions to help alternative learners improve motivation, goal-directed persistence, time management, and organizational skills.
- Determine appropriate levels of scaffolding to best aid student learning and improve engagement.
Anxiety, ADHD and Anger in the Classroom: 60 Activity-Based Coping Skills to Effectively Manage “Big Feelings”
Managing the emotional climate of your classroom is crucial to learning. When children are struggling to manage anxiety, ADHD and anger, they can’t focus on the academic tasks expected of them in a classroom setting. By teaching kids simple, healthy and safe ways to express their emotions and calm their bodies, they will be better able to concentrate on their work during the school day. The positive impact healthy coping skills will have on a child’s academic performance is truly transformational.
In this seminar, we’ll learn how coping skills impact a student’s nervous system, and how to use that knowledge to help kids calm their bodies and get ready to learn. Watch coping skills expert and experienced school counselor Janine Halloran, LMHC as she shows you coping skills and techniques ideal for a classroom.
Walk away with a coping skills toolbox:
- Deep breathing printables
- Check in sheets
- ”Anxiety thermometer”
- Relaxation exercises
- ”What’s your play personality?”
- And many more
Be prepared for experiential learning and movement as we try different coping skills like grounding techniques, breathing exercises, and big body movements throughout the day.
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Objectives
- Develop strategies for teaching kids coping skills that positively impact academic performance and their ability to maintain relationships.
- Analyze how the nervous system response of “fight, flight or freeze” is connected to stress and communicate how coping skills can be used to shift kids to a more tranquil “rest and digest” response.
- Execute a classroom routine that allows for breaks to benefit both hypo-arousal and hyper-arousal in kids with ADHD.
- Utilize mindfulness and grounding techniques that can be used to help children manage their symptoms of anxiety.
- Employ methods to determine the source of stress and create a plan to eliminate shutting down or acting out.
- Utilize specific movement-based strategies that can effectively intervene in kids’ anger responses.
Managing ADHD in School: The Best Evidence-Based Methods
Education is the most prevalent domain of impaired major life activities associated with ADHD in children and teens with more than 90% of them having significant problems functioning effectively in this setting. School is also the most seriously impaired domain relative to all other domains such as family, peer, and community functioning. Mental Health professionals therefore are routinely called upon to advise families and educators on the most appropriate methods for managing ADHD related symptoms, behavioral problems, and academic performance difficulties in school settings. This recording contains more than 80 recommendations for school management strategies to deal with ADHD children and adolescents.
Program Information
Objectives
- Communicate the nature of ADHD and its deficits in executive functioning that directly impact school adjustment.
- Employ a variety of behavioral methods that can be used in the management of ADHD symptoms and associated behavioral and learning problems in children and teens.
- Execute a variety of school accommodations that can be made to the curriculum and physical environment to reduce the degree of impairment in school functioning that may be associated with ADHD in children and teens.
Executive Function, ADHD and Stress in the Classroom
Join ADHD expert Cindy Goldrich, Ed.M., ACAC, for practical and effective TIPS, TOOLS and STRATEGIES to:
- Improve motivation to learn and engage
- Ease stress and anxiety to help kids anticipate and prepare effectively
- Strategies to help manage their homework and improve accountability
- Decrease time spent off task and out of compliance
Do you need new strategies to get kids to pay attention and learn more effectively? Are you struggling with kids who can’t get started, stay involved, or complete their class work?
This seminar teaches techniques and tools for children who struggle to focus, cooperate, and perform to their potential.
- Take advantage of the latest brain research and evidence-based best practices to get kids motivated, focused, organized, and performing closer to their true potential.
- Empower students to take charge of their challenges and take responsibility for their own success in school and in life
- Improve collaboration with parents who struggle to effectively help their children
This seminar draws on Cindy's clinical expertise of working with teachers other support professionals and parents as she brings to life how to bridge the gap between theory/research and actual implementation to address learning and behavior challenges in school. She will help you design subtle changes in the classroom to improve time management, working memory, motivation and emotional regulation that will benefit all children, not only those with ADHD. Walk away with new ideas, valuable handouts and important resources for teachers, parents, and students to manage homework, home/school communication, study-skills, behavior and more.
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Objectives
- Implement strategies to increase students’ executive functioning skills during both structured activities and open learning times.
- Employ classroom interventions that will improve time management, organizational and study skills for kids diagnosed with ADHD.
- Apply simple breathing and mindfulness techniques to reduce students’ stress levels, improve emotional regulation in order to meet classroom expectations.
- Adapt traditional behavior modification programs to address non-compliant behavior in kids who have ADHD.
- Utilize classroom management strategies that apply to the whole class while also meeting the needs of students who are easily distracted or who have cognitive processing delays.
- Implement strategies to improve homework compliance and improve study skills among students.
Behavior Management Skills for Classroom Success: Strategies for Mental Health Issues and Challenging Behaviors in the Schools
It’s guaranteed .. this recording will provide you with solutions to your students’ most challenging behaviors. You will leave with immediate tools for emotional regulation, successful strategies for out-of-control behaviors and long-term techniques to help these kids succeed both at school and at home. Let expert Scott Walls guide you through successful, clear evidence-based strategies and techniques for the most frustrating student behaviors including:
- Non-compliance
- Impulsive behavior
- Truancy
- Self-harm/suicide
- Threats of harm to others
- Highly disruptive behaviors
- Bullying
- Mental health disorders: ODD, ADHD, anxiety & depression
- Aggressive behaviors
Scott Walls has worked with the most challenging kids in both school and clinical settings and is eager to share his knowledge and expertise with you! You will leave with tools to use tomorrow to turn your most challenging kids around and create a classroom climate that encourages school success!
Program Information
Objectives
- Explore common behavioural episodes that challenge educators, administrators, & professionals and characterize how these differences inform your choice of intervention.
- Analyze clinical mental health disorders such as ODD, ADHD, anxiety and depression and address their impact on student behaviour in the classroom.
- Implement school-based intervention strategies to enhance behavioural skills in in the classroom.
- Develop effective verbal skills that increase compliant behaviour in the classroom, including praise, corrective measures and reciprocal reactions to student behaviour problems.
- Assess components of behavioural escalation and recommend intervention strategies to address each stage.
- Utilize protective techniques for classroom design in order to create a climate of physical and emotional safety and success.
- Develop effective crisis interventions plans that address significant behaviour concerns, including aggression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.
ADHD in Teens & Young Adults: A Mindfulness Based Workbook to Keep You ANCHORED
Dealing with ADHD-related difficulties is tough, especially for young people balancing school, friends, family and thinking about their futures.
Author Dr. Melissa Springstead Cahill developed the mindfulness-based ANCHORED approach, to help teens become more focused, functional and happy, and make every day struggles easier to deal with.
A: Attention and Acceptance
N: Natural Awareness
C: Concentrate on Purpose
H: Happy Homework
O: Open and Organized
R: Recognize, Relax, and Reflect
E: Emotions
D: Determination
Look inside and find:
- Mindfulness exercises
- Worksheets
- Meditation scripts
Improve:
- Executive function skills
- Attention & memory
- Emotions
- Interpersonal relationships
- Ability to cope with stress
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Congratulations to Debra Burdick and ADHD: Non-Medication Treatments and Skills for Children and Teens on winning the gold medal at the 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards for editorial and design excellence in the Psychology category! |
The most comprehensive ADHD resource available! This practical workbook gives
you the most effective, and proven, non-medication treatment approaches and skills
- Step-by-step instructions on tailoring psychotherapy to ADHD
- ADHD-friendly parenting skills
- Techniques for emotional and behavioral regulation
- Skills for organizing time, space and activity
- Mindfulness skills
- Downloadable handouts, exercises, activities and resources
The ADHD Solution Deck gives adults new insights into the minds and feelings of youth with ADHD, and offers practical, easy-to-use tools that foster more cooperation and reduce arguing.
The deck is divided into five themes to help parents and kids stay calm, and work together.
- Self-Control. Tools to manage your own feelings first so you can act effectively, and teach your child to do the same.
- Compassion. Strategies to meet your child where they are, not where you expect them to be.
- Collaboration. Learning to use a "we" attitude instead of a "you should" approach.
- Consistency. Tips to aim for steadiness, without expecting perfection from you or your child.
- Celebration. Reminders to recognize what is working, and providing on-going praise.