Full Description
Overcoming ADHD in Adolescence: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach - Client Workbook presents a scientifically supported intervention designed to help adolescents learn to manage and cope with their ADHD symptoms. Meant to be used in therapy and in conjunction with the complementary Therapist Guide, the Workbook features lessons on organization and planning, reducing distractibility, and adaptive thinking, as well as an optional section on reducing procrastination. The emphasis is primarily on teaching the adolescent how to learn and use skills to combat ADHD and function independently. The book offers guidance on how parents can be involved in the treatment, enabling them to achieve a better balance between the wish to help adolescents succeed and the need for adolescents to move towards independence. The Workbook also explores how technology can be incorporated into the treatment, concluding with a discussion on how to maintain the gains that adolescents have made in therapy. The book is complete with easy-to-use worksheets and forms.
Contents
Introduction: INFORMATION ABOUT ADHD IN ADOLESCENCE
MODULE 1: THE FOUNDATION--HOW TO BETTER ORGANIZE AND PLAN
Chapter 1: SESSION 1--OVERVIEW OF THIS TREATMENT PROGRAM AND ORIENTATION TO THE FOUNDATION - HOW TO BETTER ORGANIZE AND PLAN SO YOU CAN HAVE AND ENJOY YOUR FREE-TIME
Chapter 2: SESSION 2--HOW CAN PARENTS HELP? (FIRST PARENT/ADOLESCENT SESSION)
Chapter 3: SESSION 3--DO THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FIRST!
Chapter 4: SESSION 4--WHAT TO DO WHEN THINGS AREN'T GETTING DONE-BREAKING DOWN TASKS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING
Chapter 5: SESSION 5--HOW TO ORGANIZE EVERYTHING
MODULE 2: HOW TO KEEP GOING AND NOT GET DISTRACTED
Chapter 6: SESSION 6--FIGURING OUT YOUR ATTENTION SPAN AND LEARNGIN HOW TO DELAY DISTRACTIONS
Chapter 7: SESSION 7--OPTIMIZE YOUR SETTING
MODULE 3: HOW TO COACH YOURSELF BETTER
Chapter 8: SESSION 8--THINKING, FEELING, AND ACTING
Chapter 9: SESSION 9--SELF-COACHING
Chapter 10: SESSION 10--HOW CAN PARENTS HELP? (SECOND PARENT/ADOLESCENT SESSION)
MODULE 4: ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Chapter 11: SESSION 11--DON'T PUT IT OFF: STOP PROCRASTINATING
Chapter 12: SESSION 12--KEEPING IT GOING
