Brief Overview of Neuroanatomy
Understanding ADHD and Other Neurodivergence as Spectrum
Workplace or Classroom Environmental Changes to Support the ADHD Client
- Growth mindset and neuroplasticity
Risk Factors for ADHD
- Prenatal and perinatal and genetic contributions
- Early environmental influences
Strategies for Self-regulation Around Technology
Models of Executive Functioning
The Challenge of Co-Occurring Conditions
Organizing Treatment and Support Around Top Down/Bottom-up Framework
- Respecting neurodiversity and client autonomy when it comes to selection of treatment goals
- Behavioral targets to determine when treatment is effective
- Bottom up Supports
- Top-Down Supports
Abbreviated Parent Training Model
Living in the Gap Between Ability and Performance
- Disappointment, frustration, grief, shame
How ADHD Impacts Functioning and Identity
Goals of Treatment
ADHD is All About Time: A More Useful Model for Understanding and Working with ADHD
- Time horizon
- Temporal discounting
- Strategies to help clients see time and feel the future more effectively
Medication: What Non-prescribers Need to Know to Help Clients Make Informed Choices
- What it means to take medication for a psychological condition
- Why some clients resist medication—help them make an informed choice
- Medications for ADHD: doses, side effects, and recommended prescribing patterns
How to Get Things Done
- Strategies to improve functioning on daily tasks
Lay the Groundwork for Launch (Kindergarten – 8 grade)
- Manage attention and distractions
- Is the problem skills or motivation?
- Master homework, screen time, and rushed mornings
Prepare for Launch (9th – 12th)
- Break out of the teenage power struggle
- Promote active problem solving
- The college application is diagnostic
Does the Family Need to Delay the Launch?
- Parents’ fears about a gap year
- Benefits of gap years
- Setting the gap up to do what it should
The Successful Post-high School Launch
- Clarify parents’ role
- What it takes to be successful in college
- What else can you do besides college?
Individual Therapy to Build Resilience and a Stronger Mindset
- To tell or not to tell: Disclosing ADHD and handling social situations
Improve Clients’ Self-esteem and Agency
Address the Common Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms that Block Success
Couples Therapy When One Partner Has ADHD
- Under-/over-functioner dynamic
- Clarify desires and work better together
- Preserve time and goodwill to have fun together





