Mindfulness Based Strategies for Overcoming Complex ADHD in Youth and Families

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Mark Bertin, MD Related seminars and products

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Dr. Bertin is a developmental pediatrician and author of How Children Thrive, Mindful Parenting for ADHD and The Family ADHD Solution, which integrate mindfulness into the rest of evidence-based pediatric care. He is a contributing author for the book Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens. Dr. Bertin is on faculty at New York Medical College and the Windward Teacher Training Institute, and on the advisory boards for the non-profits Common Sense Media and Reach Out and Read. He is a regular contributor to Mindful Magazine and his blog is available through Mindful.org and Psychology Today. For more information, please visit his website at www.developmentaldoctor.com.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Mark Bertin maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the New York Medical College and Windward Teacher Training Institute. He receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Bertin receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Mark Bertin serves on the editorial board of Common Sense Media and Reach Out and Read.

Objectives

1. Employ mindful care as an approach that builds self-awareness and emotional awareness, leading to relationship-centered, compassionate and successful care.
2. Determine ways mindful care incorporates into treatment of ADHD across lifespan.
3. Integrate research regarding potential benefits of direct training in mindfulness meditation to foster self-regulation and executive function with and without ADHD.
4. Demonstrate basic mindfulness exercises that can be immediately incorporated into a daily practice.
5. Determine accessible steps providers and families can take to be more mindful in approaching ADHD management.

Outline

• Mindfulness Practice to Manage ADHD, Stress & EF Deficits
  • Cognitive skills to manage, coordinate, organize and plan
  • Chronic, excessive stress caused by ADHD
  • Effects on quality of life
• Mindfulness to Build Resilience
  • Increase flexibility and objectivity in decision making
  • Foster self-regulation
  • Sustain new habits
• Mindfulness Practice for Effects on Emotional Management Skills
  • Ability to notice emotion without immediately reacting
  • Difficulty with frustration tolerance, tantrums and anger
  • Develop patience and awareness towards whatever is happening
  • Develop emotional awareness directly
  • Experience challenging emotions with less reactivity
• Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practice
  • ADHD Effects on Self
  • Increase self-esteem, mindset and self-confidence
  • Benefits for self, and behaviour towards others
• Support Healthy Communication, Relationships & Compassion
  • School, Family, Health
  • Complex medication decisions
  • Proactive habit change for parents and children
  • Nonjudgmental awareness - ability to see clarity without bias
  • Letting go of reactivity and habitual assumptions

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Educators/Teachers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Physicians
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Psychologists
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Social Workers