Inside the ADHD Childs Experience – Sharon Saline

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In an increasingly unpredictable world, kids are more anxious than ever. But for those with ADHD, worry and fear can increase their agitation, distractedness, and impulsivity. Fortunately, there are effective techniques that can help them change their relationship with worry and avoid the pitfalls of negative thinking. In this recording, you’ll get insights into how kids honestly think and feel about having ADHD, which informs the practical tools you—and their parents—can use to better help them improve executive function skills and reduce stress.

1. Explain how to foster effective collaboration and conflict resolution with ADHD children, teens, and their parents to improve clinical outcomes. 
2. Identify ways for children with ADHD to realistically evaluate anxious situations, tolerate uncertainty, and self-soothe for symptom management. 
3. Describe how having young clients externalize their anxiety can improve client engagement and retention. 
4. Apply practical tools in session to help kids with ADHD develop resiliency and reduce patterns of negative thinking.

All about ADHD and executive functioning skills

• Definition, biology, assessment and diagnosis
• Prevalence statistics including co-occurring diagnoses
• Explanation of executive functioning skills and why they matter to treating ADHD

Understanding the relationships between ADHD and anxiety

• ADHD and emotional overwhelm
• Exploring the relationship between worry and anxiety
• Why people with ADHD are prone to anxiety
• What kids with ADHD have to say about anxiety and what helps them

A new approach to treating anxiety in kids and families living with ADHD

• Defining the 5C’s of ADHD parenting
• Tools for transforming negative thinking and reducing worry
• Learning how to tolerate uncertainty and evaluate situations
• Techniques for reducing specific types of anxiety

Keeping a positive mindset

• Overcoming setbacks and refusals to cooperate
• Focusing on improving executive functioning skills to manage anxiety
• Integrating mindfulness and self-awareness with action-oriented therapeutic interventions