How to Tailor Psychotherapy to Kids with ADHD
There is one big difference between psychotherapy for those with ADHD and those without. Our clients with ADHD don’t tend to learn skills on their own like how to manage their time, organize their stuff, interact with people appropriately, or manage their behavior and their moods. We need to help them with skills that improve emotional and behavioral regulation as well as impulse control.
In my award-winning book, "ADHD Non-Medication Treatments & Skills for Children and Teens," I've provided 162 tools, including techniques, tips, activities, resources and worksheets that can be used with children and teens to help them successfully manage the challenges and reduce the symptoms of ADHD.
Debra Burdick, LCSW, also known as “The Brain Lady”, is an award-winning, best-selling author and international speaker with over 25 years of experience in psychotherapy and neurotherapy. Debra specializes in mindfulness, ADHD, depression, anxiety, stress, chronic illness, chronic pain, and sleep.
She is the author of The Psychotherapy Toolbox for Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain. Debra originally created skills to help those with chronic pain and illness while managing her own chronic illness and chronic pain (thankfully now healed). As a psychotherapist and neurotherapist – and through extensive study with leading experts in the field – she further developed and taught these skills in her private practice and in an intensive outpatient program serving adults with physical or mental illness.
She also designed and facilitated groups for clients with chronic physical illness and presented a workshop for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) titled Psychotherapy for the Physically Ill Client.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Debra Burdick is the owner of The Brain Lady. She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Debra Burdick contributes to SelfGrowth.com.
