ADHD Struggles with Self-Esteem and Labels: An Insider's Perspective with Ari Tuckman and Jessica McCabe

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Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA Related seminars and products

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Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA is a psychologist, international presenter, author, and ADHD thought leader. He has given more than 900 presentations and podcast interviews and routinely earns excellent reviews for his ability to make complicated information understandable and useful. Over the course of twenty-five years of private practice, he has done more than 40,000 client hours, specializing in ADHD in teens, adults, families, and couples. He is the author of five books, including his newest, The ADHD Productivity Manual. An active volunteer, he is a co-chair of CHADD’s conference committee and was awarded the 2023 Hall of Fame award for his significant contributions to the field. A popular expert and advocate, he has been widely quoted in national media such as The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, and Boston Globe, and serves as an expert advisor for CHADD’s media team, the Institute for Challenging Disorganization, understood.org, and Insight Timer. He is in private practice in West Chester, PA.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ari Tuckman maintains a private practice. He receives royalties as a published author. Ari Tuckman receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ari Tuckman is the National Conference Committee co-chair for CHAAD.

Jessica McCabe Related seminars and products

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Objectives

1. Respond effectively and compassionately to clients who say that ADHD is a gift.
2. Integrate numerous perspectives on how to define ADHD in a more clinically useful way.
3. Support clients with ADHD to balance others’ performance expectations with an accurate self-assessment of their abilities.

Outline

• Why do some people say ADHD is a superpower?
  • Benefits of conceptualizing ADHD through the lens of neurodiversity
  • Using individual gifts to counterbalance the many struggles
  • The problems with medicalization, pathologizing, and the pharmaceutical profit motive
• The Dark Side of ADHD as a Gift
  • Support clients’ self-identity while still advocating for treatment
  • Identify toxic positivity and the fallout when a client can’t also be as successful as they “should be”
  • Compassion to challenge the fragility of seeing ADHD as a gift when a client’s life offers contradictory evidence
• A More Nuanced (and resilient) Self-Esteem
  • Promote clients’ accurate self-awareness to help them choose appropriate strategies, settings, and expectations
  • Help clients recognize ADHD traits as potential strengths in some situations, but liabilities in others
  • Promote a strengths-based approach that acknowledges social impacts on self-assessment
• Balancing Acceptance with Growth
  • Help clients own their ADHD in an empowering way that fits all of who they are
  • Why it matters whether someone “has ADHD” or “is ADHD”
  • Promote a definition of ADHD that strengthens clients’ sense of agency

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Educators/Teachers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Physicians
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Psychologists
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Social Workers