ADHD Treatment for Children & Adults: Proven Strategies to Self-Regulate, Stay on Task & Manage Anxiety & Intense Emotions

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Teresa Garland, MOT, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist and author specializing in sensory and modulation issues. She has worked in schools, sensory clinics and medical settings with children and adults, treating sensory disorders, ADHD and autism. Ms. Garland works closely with other health professionals, teachers and doctors to understand and treat underlying sensory, timing, and coordination/motor planning issues as well as overlying socio/emotional behaviors in the symptoms of autism. She is trained/certified in the SIPT, Interactive Metronome®, Integrated Listening Systems (iLs), Therapeutic Listening, Wilbarger’s Sensory Defensiveness, the Natural Heart Approach, Mindfulness Training, and Food Chaining. Her bestselling books are titled Self-Regulation Interventions and Strategies: Keeping the Body, Mind and Emotions on Task in Children with Autism, ADHD or Sensory Disorders (PESI, 2014) and Hands-on Activities for Children with Autism & Sensory Disorders (PESI, 2016).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Teresa Garland is a presenter with Michigan Job Rehabilitation. She receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Teresa Garland has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Analyze the pluses and minuses of using diet, meds or therapy approaches for ADHD.
2. Summarize Barkley’s levels of pre-executive function and executive function.
3. Characterize three attention interventions.
4. Devise a detailed program to help adults manage the details of their life.
5. Summarize five ways to manage anxiety in children and adults.
6. Communicate three ways to work with emotional regulation in ADHD.
7. Outline the key element of timing therapy and how to achieve it.
8. Simulate a program for learning to stay present.

Outline

• General approaches to manage ADHD
• Dietary: Metabolic issues, food sensitivities
• Medications: The pros and cons
• Non-medication therapies

• Does Executive Function equal Self-Regulation?
• Russ Barkley’s levels of executive function
• Matching Barkley’s levels to age and maturity to plan interventions
• Self-regulation capabilities and compensation

• Recognize “off-center” emotions and intensity
• Get in touch with and be present to emotions
• Strategies to accept and manage emotions
• Positive guidance via the Nurtured Heart Approach
• Manage intensity for the adult
• Diffuse emotions with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

• Create habits in small children
• Dictated goals vs. self-management of tasks
• Using apps to compensate for poor organization skills

• Basics: One thing at a time
• Learn effective self-control
• Self-management for children
• Self-management for adults

• Timing therapy for children and adults
  • Interactive Metronome®
  • A metronome app
• Sharp attention to gain hyper-focus
• Have fun with attention exercises for young children
• Mindfulness attention training for children and adults

• Look social situations in the eye
• Keep deadlines at arm’s length
• Stress management
• Three breathing techniques
• Physical exercise, work and play
• The Mind Jar
• Keep it simple
• Learn self-acceptance vs. defensiveness

• Recognize emotional and mental states
• Stay present, wait, watch and accept
• Use self-regulation to counter impulses
• Advanced strategies to manage intensity

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