
ADHD Resources
Book Recommendations
- Smart But Scattered Series
- Smart but Scattered Teens: The “Executive Skills” Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential
- Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
- The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain’s Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home
- ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction–from Childhood through Adulthood
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
For Adults/Couples:
- The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain’s Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home
- This is one of my all-time favorite books for adults with ADHD!!! They focus on the challenges of identifying the ways ADHD can impact adulting by understanding and leveraging your Executive Functioning Strengths and Weaknesses. There is an assessment at the beginning of each book that helps identify the different executive functions and helps you rate where you are strong. I have every client I work with do this assessment. Whether you are ADHD or not, we all have executive functioning strengths or weaknesses and it is very helpful to “know thyself” so you can find the best strategies to thrive and survive. If the client is partnered, or I am working with the couple I have them both fill out the assessment so they can learn more about their partners as well. Additionally, there is a chapter in the adult book that is about couple work. It has the couple identify the adulting skills and rate the tasks that each of them are strong and weak in. It can really help the couple identify appropriate expectations and strategies to counterbalance the weaknesses in the relationship. It can also help the partners understand that this is not just a problem with willpower, but rather real challenges the client faces and modulate their expectations or identify creative solutions. As Dr. Charles Barkley says- ADHD is not a knowing issue, it is a “doing” challenge.
ADHD and Medication Overview
- Webinar/Medication and Addiction Overview- Debunking Medication Myths for ADHD Treatment in kids. “How to Optimize Stimulant Treatment for Children and Adults: Better Symptom Management Without Side Effects” [Video Replay & Podcast #252]– Dr Brown
ADHD and Addiction Articles
- The Damaging Effects of Cannabis on the ADHD Brain
- Addictive Behaviors and ADHD in Adults Explained
- Porn Addiction: Does My ADHD Teen Have a Problem with Sex?
- The Truth About ADHD and Addiction
- Never Enough? Why ADHD Brains Crave Stimulation
- What Percentage of People Who Struggle With Addiction Have Trauma?
Trauma and Addiction
- Traumatic Stress and Substance Abuse Problems
- Mental Health Report: Trauma Haunts 82% of Adults with ADHD
- The Therapeutic Application of Creativity for the Treatment of Trauma and Addiction
- Women and Addiction: A Trauma-Informed Approach: Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
- Substance use, childhood traumatic experience, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in an urban civilian population – PMC
- Youth Victimization: Prevalence and Implications
- The Link Between Childhood Trauma And Addiction In Adulthood – Silvermist Recovery
- The intersection of childhood trauma and addiction – Counseling Today
Neuroscience and Addiction
Addiction Phenotypes in EEG- Understanding the Neurological underpinnings/predispositions to Addiction
- Addiction Phenotypes– Jay Gunkelman (The meat of Addiction and Phenotypes starts at about 21 minutes)
Differential Diagnosis of ADHD
- Identification of ADHD in Gifted kids “The Missed Diagnosis: ADHD and Autism in Smart Kids and Adults” [Video Replay & Podcast #356]
- The Relationship Between PTSD and ADHD: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Mental Health Report: Trauma Haunts 82% of Adults with ADHD
Articles
- Declutter Your Office, Keep Your Desk Clean
- What Are the Top ADHD Resources?
- Autism in Women with ADHD: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- When Parent and Child Both Have ADHD
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Hyperfocus
- DESR: Why Deficient Emotional Self-Regulation is Central to ADHD (and Largely Overlooked)
- How ADHD Ignites Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD): Symptoms & Treatment
- What Is Deficient Emotional Self-Regulation (DESR)?
Online Resources
- How To ADHD – Extremely well done, scientifically-backed and bite sized videos tackling some of the practical issues and supports to managing ADHD
- How to Deal with Rejection Sensitivity
- This is how you treat ADHD based off science, Dr Russell Barkley part of 2012 Burnett Lecture
Support Groups
Agencies
- CHADD – Improving the lives of people affected by ADHD
- ADDitude – ADD & ADHD Symptom Tests, Signs, Treatment, Support
- AACAP ADHD Resource Center
- ADHD– NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
Trainings
- ICF Accredited Coach Training Programs
- Certified ADHD Coach Training for Life Coaches
- Certificate in Learning Differences and Neurodiversity– Landmark College
- ADHD Diet d Certified ADHD Coach Training Program and Courses
- Accredited ADHD Coach Training & Education Archives | ADDA
- Fully Integrated ADHD Coach Training Programs
- ADHD Coach Training
- Get Certified
- ADHD Training Center | ADD Life Coach Certification Online | ADHD Coaching in the UK | How to Become a Certified Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Coach | iACTcenter
- ADHD Coach Training Program Information
- UDemy ADHD Training
Neurodiversity- ADHD/Autism Training
Individual Coaching/Support
ADHD, Diet, Nutrition, and Eating Disorders
- ADHD Diet and Nutrition: Foods To Eat & Foods to Avoid
- ADHD Diet Plan: Foods to Eat & Avoid to Help ADD Symptoms
- The ADHD Diet Plan: Healthy Foods and Supplements for Kids & Adults
- Nutrition and ADHD
- Do Diet and Nutrition Affect ADHD? Facts and Clinical Considerations September 27th 2018 This article examines
- Diet and ADHD, Reviewing the Evidence: A Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses of Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trials Evaluating the Efficacy of Diet Interventions on the Behavior of Children with ADHD
- ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder)
- Eating with ADHD – Nicole DeMasi Malcher