Margaret Dawson – Smart but Scattered Adults: Manage ADHD by Targeting Executive Skills
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- Faculty:
- Margaret Dawson
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 1 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Dec 16, 2016
Description
Outline
The Executive in the Brain
- How the brain’s “control center” governs executive skills
- The impact of ADHD on frontal lobe functioning
- How effective behavior change revolves around executive skills
Assessment tools
- Executive Skills Questionnaire—a rating scale to help clients determine their executive skill strengths and weaknesses
- Workplace assessment tools to help clients better use their executive skill strengths and minimize the impact of their weaknesses
- Home management tools to help clients understand why they avoid some chores like the plague—and what to do about it!
- A rating scale to help partners understand each other’s profile and the impact of profile differences on relationships
The Impact of Executive Skills in the Daily Life of Adults with ADHD
- Executive skills in the workplace
- Goodness of fit between executive skills profile and the job
- Maximizing executive skill strengths
- Managing weaknesses
- Creating an action plan
- Executive skills in the home
- The concept of “effortful work”
- Matching executive skills profiles to appropriate tasks
- Effective roles for family members living with adults with ADHD
- Executive skills in relationships
- How the executive skills profiles of adults with ADHD affect those they live with
- The impact of mismatches and different executive skills profiles on relationships
- Tips for working with couples where one partner has ADHD
Key Strategies to Help ADHD Clients Cope with Weak Executive Skills
- Environmental modifications to reduce the impact of executive skill challenges
- Change the physical or social environment
- Modify tasks to make them more do-able
- Enlist the help of others
Strategies for Improving Executive Skills
- In the workplace
- 12 executive skills that impact productivity and behavior change
- Make a SMART goal
- Using a deadline
- Make a plan
- The importance of clear start dates
- Using technology to support behavior change
- In the home
- Find logical ways to share the work load
- Understand the start point
- Start small, build incrementally
- Practice, practice, practice
- Using visible reminders
- Motivators
- In relationships
- How different profiles signal tension points in relationships
- Keys to resolving conflicts arising from executive skill differences
- The liberal use of humor, patience, forgiveness, negotiation
- Using self-talk to motivate, problem solve and persist
- The power of positivity
Faculty
Margaret Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP Related seminars and products: 11
Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP, is a school psychologist and for over 20 years has worked at the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she specializes in the assessment of children and adults with learning and attention disorders. She is co-author of the bestselling books on executive dysfunction, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents: 2nd Edition (Guilford, 2010), Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009) and Smart but Scattered Teens (Guilford, 2013).
Peg is a past editor of Communiqué, the newsletter of the National Association of School Psychologists, and has published numerous articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, including retention, ability grouping, reading disorders, attention disorders, the sleep problems of adolescents, the use of interviews in the assessment process, and homework.
Peg has many years of organizational experience at the state, national and international levels and served in many capacities, including president of the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and the International School Psychology Association.She has also participated in many of NASP’s leadership initiatives, including the Futures Conference and the development of both the second and third Blueprint for the Training and Practice of School Psychology. She is the 2006 recipient of NASP’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Peg received her doctorate in school/child clinical psychology from the University of Virginia.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Margaret (Peg) Dawson is an author for Guilford Press and receives royalties. She is an author for Amacon publishers and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Margaret (Peg) Dawson has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
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