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Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication

Many persons diagnosed with ADHD prefer not to take medication. There are various reasons for this including side effects and concerns with long-term use. In this seminar, you will learn more about these reasons, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD.

Looking at ADHD from a developmental perspective, we will consider reasons for the apparent increase in ADHD diagnoses over the past two decades. By understanding the way the brain works in ADHD, you will be able to better identify a variety of strategies to significantly impact the nervous system and positively influence symptoms of ADHD in your clients.

Not only will you walk away with information about some of the most common non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation and neurofeedback, you will also learn a variety of practical strategies that can be implemented immediately and at low cost.

We will navigate the vast research on exercise, movement, diet, sleep, disruptive technologies, supplements and the impact of the environment on ADHD, summarizing the findings and applying the information to “real life.” You will leave this seminar with the tools and knowledge to develop a holistic approach to working with adults and children with ADHD.

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Objectives

Evaluate the relationship between the frontal lobe of the brain and ADHD symptomology for the purpose of client psychoeducation.
Determine the impact of movement and exercise on the reduction of ADHD symptoms as it relates to assessment and treatment planning.
Employ treatment interventions for improving impulse control and working memory in clients.
Analyze the influence of diet and nutrition on ADHD symptoms in relation to assessment and treatment planning.
Develop clinical strategies to calm the nervous system of clients diagnosed with ADHD.
Assess the clinical implications of environmental influences on ADHD symptoms in clients.

Copyright : 15/10/2021

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.

Copyright : 10/06/2021

Rethinking ADHD: A New Treatment Approach

As ubiquitous as it is, the condition we misleadingly call ADHD is too often misunderstood, even by professionals. Rather than treating it as a deficit or a disorder, the best outcomes derive from a new strengths-based model that reconceives ADHD as VAST (Variable Attention Stimulus Trait). Discover cutting-edge interventions based on the VAST approach that can change the lives of clients of all ages. You’ll learn:

How to explain the VAST model to clients in plain language, so they start seeing and using their unique brain traits as an asset rather than a curse
The role of medication vs. nonmedication interventions for children and adults
How to help clients avoid the major pitfalls of VAST, such as chronic self-attack, rumination, underachievement, substance abuse and other addictions, poor relationship choices, and the consequences of disorganization

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Objectives

Evaluate several treatment interventions based on a VAST approach to ADHD that improve clinical outcomes.
Assess how to explain the VAST model to clients in a way that helps them view their unique brain traits as assets.
Investigate the major pitfalls of treatment and how to avoid them.
Evaluate the role of medication and nonmedication interventions for children and adults.

Copyright : 03/02/2021

Psychopharmacology: Essential Updates for Mental Health Professionals

If you are like a lot of therapists, many of your clients are taking psychotropic medicines prescribed by a number of different health care professionals. Despite who wrote the script, it is your responsibility to know your clients' symptoms and reactions to medications, and to coordinate their care.

This intensive focuses on providing practical and useful information about antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, and medication for insomnia, as well as the tools to handle the ethical decisions that surround psychopharmacology. Get to the "bottom line" on the most prescribed antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, and medication for insomnia on the market today, and learn how to discuss scope of practice with your patients in order to optimize their care. The goal is for you to leave better prepared to communicate with your clients as well as the prescribers.

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Objectives

Investigate the proper role of mental health professionals who treat clients receiving both psychotherapeutic medications and psychotherapy.
Determine the traditional medications used for the treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and medications for insomnia.
Assess recent advances in the medications for depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, and insomnia.

Copyright : 02/12/2020

Extended Adolescence - When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood

The interplay of new technologies, socio-cultural shifts, and educational stressors have created obstacles for young people like never before.

Research suggests that while today’s youth enter adolescence much sooner, they actually reach adulthood much later...resulting in an “extended adolescence.” Our traditional therapeutic tools now fall short, as we endeavour to help clients meet the demands of adulthood.

Watch award-winning author and international speaker Sharon Saline, Psy.D., and national trainer and child/family consultant Steve O’Brien, Psy.D., for an enlightening experience designed to redefine and redesign your treatment approach to help young people forge a path to adulthood.

You will learn strategies to:

Navigate ADHD, anxiety, autism and other obstacles to develop life skills
Reprogram the dopamine dependent brain
Cultivate openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
Collaborate with well-intended but over-involved parents
Instil motivation to advance real-world engagement
Promote “connected independence” in young adults

This timely and engaging training will shed new light on Generation Z youth and equip you with practical, contemporary tools for empowering these young people to shift gears and move toward a rewarding and meaningful adulthood.

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Objectives

Evaluate relevant research on extended adolescence and emerging adulthood.
Determine factors which promote normative vs complicated adolescent identity development.
Evaluate the interplay of technological, societal, and educational stressors on the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.
Distinguish how DSM-5™ disorders develop in adolescents hinder the “adulting” process.
Choose therapeutic strategies for reducing symptom severity in young adults and for reducing systemic conflict.
Design clinical interventions for common disorders of the Gen Z population.
Employ therapeutic techniques for cultivating a growth mindset and resilience in young adults.

Copyright : 09/06/2021

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 practising 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 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, Relationships, and Sex: Strategies to Overcome the Over/Under-Functioner Dynamic

Couples show up in your office stuck in a tug of war -- neither partner is happy.

Without specific strategies to shift this dynamic, you’ll get stuck in the same unwinnable battles – and if you’re not looking for ADHD in one of the partners, you could be missing the boat!

Explicitly addressing ADHD (including the other partner’s response to it) is the change agent for successful therapy!

ADHD exacerbates the universal struggles that every couple faces, so learning to work more effectively with these couples will make you more effective with all your couples.

Join Ari Tuckman, PsyD, CST, in this fresh look at how to move couples forward in therapy:

Overcome ADHD’s mindset traps
Escape the dynamics of the over- and under-functioner
Create more sustainable agreements
Negotiate each partner’s desires and needs
Once again reap the many benefits of a satisfying sex life

Don’t miss out on learning from one of the few experts in both ADHD and sex therapy!

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Objectives

Demonstrate how ADHD neurology impacts an individual psychology.
Determine the many ways that ADHD can impact both partners in a couple and the common dynamics that ensue.
Clarify what the research tells us about the differences between the most and least happy couples with one ADHD partner and apply it to practice.
Integrate a deeper understanding of ADHD, relationship dynamics, and sexuality to work more effectively with these clients to improve both their relationship and sex life.

Identifying and Treating the 1 in 5 students with ADHD and Learning Disabilities who are Returning to School Misdiagnosed and Misunderstood

We are all aware that the pandemic of 2020 brought to light inequities in education that have persisted for the past 20 years. Our challenge now is that the magnification of such dilemmas calls for immediate science-based actions. In this presentation, Pediatric Psychologist, Dr. Lynne Kenney integrates research and practice from psychology, cognitive science, public health, education, kinesiology, occupational therapy, and speech-language therapy to provide a uniquely actionable perspective on the application of executive function, social-emotional, and sensory-motor skills poised to shift a generation of learners. We spend billions of dollars on academic curriculum, when our time, energy, and resources are better spent on cognitive skill-building, social-emotional learning, phonology, numeracy, physical literacy, and mental health services for all.

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Objectives

Understand the neurobiology of learning.
Learn why the achievement GAP impacts all of us.
Understand the development precursors to learning.
Learn what you can do to impact the neurobiological domains of learning and behaviour.
Learn about current assessment technologies and tools (not taught in grad school) that answer questions more relevant to learning, mental health, and behaviour.
Learn the role of building cognitive and self-regulation skills in the improvement of academic outcomes.
Understand the role of Structured Literacy and Foundational Numeracy in improving academic, social, and behavioural outcomes.
Learn the three things (you were not taught) to screen for if you are working with a student who is anxious or depressed.
Learn an evidence-based assessment, treatment, and intervention methodology to improve learning and behavioural outcomes in your clients/students.

CBT Strategies for Kids and Adolescents: Supporting Students with ADHD and Anxiety

School’s back in session – but that’s not good news for everyone.

A safe haven for some and a source of significant stress for others, school presents a number of unique stressors – particularly those with anxiety or ADHD. And as they navigate their new normal at school, they’ll need more support than ever. Are you prepared?

Join child and adolescent CBT expert Dr. David Pratt for this compelling 90-minute training designed to set you and your clients or students up for success in the school year.

You’ll learn:

Why students with anxiety and/or ADHD are especially vulnerable to difficulties re-entering school after a prolonged absence
Easy to implement CBT strategies and tools to help your students meet academic and social demands of school
And more!

This training is a must-attend for anyone working with school-age kids and adolescents – sign up today!

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Objectives

Determine the unique characteristics and challenges that students with anxiety or ADHD have with respect to coping with the academic and social demands of the school environment;
Utilize evidence-based interventions to help the anxious or ADHD student make a positive adjustment to re-entering school subsequent to a prolonged absence due to COVID-19 quarantine.
Develop interventions for teaching executive functioning skills to children and adolescents with ADHD.

The ADHD Solution Deck

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.

ADHD in Teens & Young Adults

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

Executive Function Difficulties in Adults

Executive function difficulties may not go away with age-and inside you’ll find 52 worksheets, 40 handouts, and dozens of tips to make day-to-day living easier and more productive for adults.

Written by executive function and ADHD expert, Dr. Stephanie Sarkis, this unique resource includes:

Proven cognitive-behavioural strategies
Exercises to improve short-term memory, organization and focus
Techniques to enhance communication and social skills
Easy-to-follow instructions for mindfulness meditation
Effective accommodations for the workplace and college