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122 ADHD: How I Do An Evaluation
Evaluating ADHD is a complicated procedure that requires a lot of experience mainly because there is not a single instrument that can determine ADHD. This leaves the evaluator with having to rule out the other...
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ADHD-Don’t Take It
ADHDers have a lot of difficulties adjusting to a world that doesn’t understand them. It’s even worse if the ADHDer doesn’t understand him or herself. Self-esteem tends to plummet. It’s not incidental that one of the...
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ADHD Parenting - When You”re Overwhelmed
Being a parent is not easy. Being the parent of an ADHD child is even harder, yet most of the treatment advice we get is focused on the child. We, as parents, are kind of overlooked or treated as an afterthought. In...
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ADHD - Hobbies are Important
ADHDers tend to have difficulties with education as conducted in the United States. Therefore, it’s important for them to develop other interests. These can be sports , music, theater, art and many other activities...
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ADHD-Don’t Let Them Quit
One of the most important skills to teach an ADHD child is resilience. One of the quickest ways to sabotage your efforts is to let them quit easily. This covers everything from guitar lessons to Little League. ADHDers...
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ADHD-Coaching vs. Psychotherapy
Coaching. Is not the same as psychotherapy. People can be coaches witthout without being psychotherapists. People can be psychotherapists without being coaches. Coaching comes out of the positive psychology movement...
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ADHD-Strengths and Positives
ADHDers get more criticism than neurotypical children and frequently have lower self-esteem. To help them develop resilience and better self-esteem, it’s important to remember that they have a lot of strengths and...
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ADHD-Parenting an ADHD Adult
Parenting an ADHD child does not always end at adulthood especially in our current economic environment, not to mention (but I will) Covid and the disruptive effect that has had. Coupled with the fact that many, if...
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ADHD-It Runs in Families
ADHD has been identified as having an 85% heritability index, which is incredibly High and indicates that if even only one parent has ADHD, it likely that the children will have ADHD. I have a wife who’s family has a...
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ADHD-Parenting Tips III
This is the third in our series of tips for parenting ADHD kids. This time it’s presenting in a do this, don’t do this format. I’m terming to be aware that frequently at least one parent is also ADHD, so I should do...
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ADHD-Holiday Reflections
This is a time of year for thinking about life, evaluating life, thinking about our decisions, our performance, our loved ones both living and, deceased. This sometimes leads to joy and sometimes leads to anxiety...
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ADHD Holiday Survival
This the third podcast in a series about handling holiday for ADHD parents. This episode contains a series of things you can do to make it through the holidays with way less stress. They are simple but proven by...
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