ADDA’s Webinars/Teleclasses have been such a hit that we’re offering classes throughout the year! Teleclasses will run for an hour, on Wednesday nights starting at 9:00 PM EST. The classes have been expanded, from a phone-based program to a Webinar format. Now members will also have the ability to login online, via a link we provide, to chat with other participants and view the slides as the presenter is scrolling through them. Attendees will be able to send their questions to the speaker via the Web and hear them answered live.

"Just wanted to tell you what a great webinar that was! This was the first time I'd been able to hear Dr. Tracy Ware, and it's refreshing to hear someone talk about actual rigorous research relevant to ADHD. Thanks! ~Catherine"

 

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Adults with ADHD Parenting ADHD Kids

Effective parenting is a huge responsibility and often needs to be mastered. This can be particularly challenging for an adult with ADHD, who by the nature of the challenges of ADHD symptoms, may find it difficult to give the kind of love, encouragement, and approval that children long for. The situation becomes even more complicated when adults with ADHD are parenting kids with ADHD. The symptoms of both the child and the adult can make the relationship even more complex with communication breakdowns and lack of healthy boundaries. In this presentation, we will discuss the common traits of adults and children with ADHD that interfere with the parent-child relationship and discuss practical ways in which adults with ADHD can overcome those challenges in order to build loving relationships with their children for a lifetime.

Terry M. Dickson, M.D., ACG, CPCC is the Founder and Director of The Behavioral Medicine Clinic of NW Michigan that has served and supported children, adolescents and adults with AD/HD for the past twelve years. The Behavioral Medicine Clinic is a comprehensive clinic that provides education and supportive materials to families and individuals as well as medical treatment.

He has been a principal study investigator for several clinical AD/HD medication trials and has published many articles and has contributed to book chapters. His heartfelt passion for folks with AD/HD led him to coaching as he feels it fills a need that medication can't fill. He is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and a graduate of ADDCA. His coach training includes the ADD Coach Academy and The Coaches Training Institute. His passion is how AD/HD affects families, especially AD/HD and marriage and parenting children with AD/HD. He has a special interest in how AD/HD affects the non-AD/HD spouse.

Dr. Dickson speaks regularly on AD/HD and has been interviewed locally and nationally on both radio and TV (CNN News) as well as CHADD's Ask an Expert online. He most recently appeared on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. He has been a frequent speaker at the International CHADD Conference, past ADDA National Conferences, the Michael Golds Memorial Conference and the Annual Virtual AD/HD Conference. He served on the Board of Directors of ADDA and co-chairman of the Professional Advisory Board and the ADDA National Conference Chairman. He is a member of the AD/HD Coaches Organization.

He lives in Traverse City, Michigan with his wife and two children who have both been diagnosed with AD/HD.

Bonnie Ihme is an adult who was diagnosed 3 months ago with ADHD. The biggest challenge for me was knowing that something was wrong with me but not knowing what it was for 42 years! Over the years, I struggled through schooling, my relationships, work, my marriage and now my parenting of two children. My son was diagnosed with ADHD two years ago and the more I read about ADHD (in order to help him) the more I saw the traits of ADHD in myself as well. Now I find much comfort in learning as much as I can about ADHD. Now I have a name for an issue that had made me questions myself about the things I've done and said for too long without an answer. Parenting is a challenge for anyone but to add ADHD to the mix brings on a whole new set of challenges!

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Lemonade: Building and Maintaining Resilience in Individuals with ADHD and Their Families

Individuals with ADHD face challenges every day finding ways to successfully manage the day to day tasks that are required to be productive in our world. Those individuals, who are resilient, find a way to bounce back and achieve success. What are the attributes that allow someone to be resilient and can we develop them to become more resilient? The good news is that we can. Cuthbert and Sloan and Graham have taken the resilience research to date and have created a simple, effective model that can be applied for use by individuals with ADHD, their coaches and health care providers. By developing and strengthening these resilience attributes, an individual’s personal level of resilience will grow, develop, and stay with over time. Participants will have to opportunity to learn some of the interventions that build resilience during the webinar.

Uniquely trained in education, psychology and business, Alan R. Graham obtained his Ph.D. at Northwestern University. Dr. Graham currently teaches the ADHD Coaching curriculum for MentorCoach.

He has been certified as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and as a Master Certified ADHD Coach (MCAC).

Dr. Graham serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Attention Disorders and is on the board of the Professional Association of ADHD Coaches (PAAC).

With Dr. Bill Benninger, Dr. Graham created ADDvisor.com, a website for sharing practical information through email newsletters and teleconference workshops. His clinical and coaching practice, ACP Consultants, is in Park Ridge, Illinois.

Since, 2006, Dr. Graham has helped many individuals benefit from Cogmed Working Memory Training.

He is the lead author of Lemonade: The Leader’s Guide to Resilience at Work, published in 2012.

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Open Q&A regarding the diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD

In this Q&A session, Dr. Ramsay will field questions regarding issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD, including questions regarding DSM5 and evidence supported medical and psychosocial treatments as well as other questions posed by participants.

Dr. J. Russell ("Russ”) Ramsay is co-founder and co-director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program and an associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Ramsay is widely published and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Attention Disorders and the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. He also serves as the co-chair of the Professional Advisory Board of the Attention Deficit Disorder Association. Dr. Ramsay is frequently interviewed by various media outlets regarding issues related to adult ADHD.

 

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

ADHD and Body Focused Repetitive and Compulsive Behaviors (BFRB), such as Skin Picking, Hair Pulling and Nail Biting

Many people with ADHD commonly engage in body focused compulsive and repetitive behaviors (BFRB), such as skin picking (dermotillomania), hair pulling (trichotillomania), and nail biting. These behaviors are annoying at best and can be tormenting at worst. This webinar will discuss why individuals with ADHD are prone to these behaviors, as well as the functions these behaviors serve. People who engage in BFRB feel a lot of shame in engaging in these habits, being told by others to simply "stop", but cannot. ADHD-friendly treatment interventions will be discussed, as well as ways of counteracting the negative self talk many with BFRB experience. Attention will be placed on how not addressing the ADHD in BFRB treatment can make for ineffective treatment, since ADHD symptoms affect one's ability to engage in traditional treatment interventions.

Dr. Roberto Olivardia is a Clinical Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he specializes in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). He also specializes in the treatment of eating disorders in boys and men. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Olivardia is an active researcher. He is co-author of The Adonis Complex, a book which details the various manifestations of body image problems in men. He has taught courses at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Boston College. He has appeared in publications such as TIME, GQ, and Rolling Stone, and has been featured on Good Morning America, EXTRA, CBS This Morning, CNN, Fox and Friends, and VH1. He has spoken on numerous radio and webinar shows and presents at many talks and conferences around the country, including the CHADD conferences annually.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

The Other Attention Disorder: ADD or Sluggish Cognitive Tempo

Since 1798, the medical literature on attention disorders has distinguished between at least two kinds, one a disorder of distractibility, lack of sustained attention, and poor inhibition and the other a disorder of low power, arousal, or focus. This second disorder has been largely ignored for nearly two centuries until the mid-1980s when studies of children having ADD without Hyperactivity suggested that an important subset had a relatively distinct pattern of symptoms not central to ADHD. These symptoms included daydreaming, mental fogginess and confusion, staring, slow processing of information, hypoactivity, slow movement, and lethargy, among others. The new pattern was called sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT). Controversy has continued over the past 25 years on the nature of SCT and whether it is a subtype of ADHD or a distinct disorder from it.

In this presentation, Dr. Barkley reviews the history of SCT and what is known about it from past research. He also describes the results of his own recent investigations into SCT in children and the only study of SCT in adults that he recently published, all of which suggest that SCT is a distinct disorder from ADHD but one that may overlap with it in nearly half of all cases. Dr. Barkley discusses the differences between SCT in symptoms, executive functioning, comorbidity for other disorders, and psychosocial impairment and what little is known about differential treatment response. He also discusses several different possibilities for explaining the underlying nature of SCT.

Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is a Diplomate (board certified) in three specialties, Clinical Psychology (ABPP), Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN, ABPP). Dr. Barkley is a clinical scientist, educator, and practitioner who has published 21 books, rating scales, and clinical manuals numbering 28 editions. He has also published more than 250 scientific articles and book chapters related to the nature, assessment, and treatment of ADHD and related disorders. He is the founder and Editor of the bimonthly clinical newsletter, The ADHD Report, now in its 20th year of publication. Dr. Barkley has presented more than 700 invited addresses internationally and appeared on nationally televised programs such as 60 Minutes, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, and many other programs on behalf of those with ADHD. He has received awards from the American Psychological Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Board of Professional Psychology, Association for the Advancement of Applied and Preventive Psychology, the Wisconsin Psychological Association, and Children and Adults with ADHD (CHADD) for his career accomplishments, contributions to research in ADHD, to clinical practice, and for the dissemination of science. His websites are www.russellbarkley.org and ADHDLectures.com.

Russell A. Barkley is the author of Taking Charge of Adult ADHD (New York, Guilford.com).

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