Understanding and Succeeding with ADHD

Understand how ADHD can devastate self-esteem, self-image, and motivation when untreated, while highlighting the importance of positive, supportive interactions at home and school.

Explore current knowledge and how professionals diagnose ADHD using the DSM and ICD criteria, and screening tools such as the Vanderbilt assessment scales and the Conor's scale.

Explore the latest research and thinking on ADHD, and how applying correct knowledge improves self-control, time management, and adherence to social norms and rules.

Discover how ADHD is an executive functioning disorder and explore components like planning, focus, memory, self-control, and emotion regulation, plus strategies to activate, organize, and sustain goal-directed behavior.

Explore the latest research on ADHD, detailing executive dysfunction, impaired planning and goal setting, varying maturity across settings, hyperfocus, stimulation seeking, memory challenges, and impulsive decision making.

Explores the latest research on ADHD, highlighting fidgeting, impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, and working memory challenges, plus the role of in the moment strategies by parents and teachers, and medication.

Explore the co-occurring diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder in individuals with ADHD, including prevalence, Vanderbilt assessment criteria, and common symptoms like arguing, defiance, and anger.

Delve into the latest ADHD research, revealing hereditary influence, reduced frontal lobes activity, and brain development with medication; explore prenatal risks and why social factors don’t cause it.

Explore Barkley's best new checklist for adult ADHD, a nine-item criteria set focused on executive functioning. Recognize nine indicators—from distractibility to organization—that define Barkley's approach, distinct from the DSM-5.

Explore how ADHD enables creativity, imagination, drive, and passion, illustrated by famous actors, artists, and scientists, and learn how many succeed by compensating.

ADHD is almost always genetic, linked to dopamine and norepinephrine signaling and lower frontal lobe activity, with differential diagnoses including sleep apnea and vision or auditory difficulties.

Learn treatment strategies for ADHD and comorbidities, emphasizing behavioral therapy, family and individual therapy, and education, with attention to oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorders.

Explore how ADHD affects academics and development, highlighting high rates of grade retention, dropout, inattention and reduced productivity, plus learning, language, and socialization challenges.

Explore how ADHD co-morbidity drives emotional stress, anxiety, depression, and social challenges, including impaired peer relationships, low self-esteem, school frustration, and risk of conduct and personality disorders.

Explore behavioral stress in ADHD, highlighting impulsiveness, higher injury and accident risk, oppositional defiant and conduct disorders, substance use, teen pregnancy risk, and increased healthcare costs.

ADHD in children raises driving danger with four times as many auto accidents. Parental stress spikes, divorce risk increases, and family conflict occurs, while medication and therapy help.

Implement school and classroom strategies for students with ADHD by enforcing early behavioral rules, structured routines, color-coded organization, frequent active breaks, and parental collaboration to boost productivity and focus.

Discover classroom strategies for ADHD students, including structured routines, daily behavior report cards, emphasis on note-taking and handwriting, keyboarding versus writing, visual rules, timers, and private discipline approaches.

Explain how medication, family and school-based supports, and structured study tools help teens with ADHD improve self-esteem, independence, and academic performance through planning, note-taking, and shared teacher–parent collaboration.

Explore how parental and adult ADHD affect child treatment, relationships, and life outcomes, and how proper medication and therapy improve functioning across work, family, and education.

Explore how self-image and visualization shape behavior and outcomes for people with ADHD. Learn to guard and build a positive self-image through daily visualization to unlock creativity, motivation, and success.

Identify a coordinated approach to ADHD therapy, combining child psychologists, parent training, peer support, and school coordination to achieve optimal medication dosing and functional improvement.

Design supportive environments around individuals with ADHD to compensate for executive functioning deficits, using immediate consequences, cues, timers, journaling, and routines to boost performance.

This lecture outlines five essential ADHD treatment elements—comprehensive evaluation, education and counseling, proper medication, behavior modification, and accommodations—plus evidence-based therapies like parent and teacher education and IEP planning.

Explore how ADHD parent training effectiveness declines with age, especially after age 11, and learn three involvement styles: scientific, executive, principle-centered that support positive parent-child relations and behavior.

Discover the 100-year history of ADHD and debunk myths about origins, subtypes, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.

Explore how ADHD medications, including stimulants like amphetamines and methylphenidate, increase dopamine and norepinephrine to reduce symptoms. Emphasize proper dosage, safety, and addressing outliers to achieve about 80 percent improvement.

Work with your doctor to start stimulant therapy at a low dose, titrate until symptoms are controlled, monitor response, and use a three-day observation period.

Understand how ADHD medication affects children and adults, including common side effects, rebound, and growth monitoring, while evaluating interactions, comorbidity, and lifestyle strategies. Collaborate with your doctor on dosing.

Explore ADHD medications, including methylphenidate and amphetamine stimulants, their short- and long-acting delivery systems, and common myths; compare non-stimulants like strattera and guidance to consult a doctor.