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Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP Related seminars and products

Dr. Sharon Saline, PLLC

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Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP, clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD Solution Deck, specializes in working with children, teens, and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality and mental health issues.

With decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, educator and consultant, she guides people towards a greater understanding about neurodivergence and to live with more productivity and connection. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as ADHD ad neurodivergence, executive functioning, the anxiety spectrum, motivation, perfectionism and working with different kinds of learners.

Dr. Saline is on the advisory panel, serves as a contributing editor at ADDitudemag.com and hosts their monthly Solve My Problem live webinar sessions. She is an instructor in the department of psychiatry, University of Massachusetts-Baystate, T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Springfield, MA. She also blogs for PsychologyToday.com, appears as a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and is a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. She has been featured in numerous online and print publications including The New York Times, MSN, The Washington Post, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, Attitude Magazine and more.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sharon Saline maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Smith College School for Social Work and Additudemag.com. . She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sharon Saline is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Children and Adults with ADHD, and the Attention Deficit Disorder Association.

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Objectives

1. Differentiate ADHD from trauma, anxiety, OCD, and  autism to support accurate diagnosis and treatment planning
2. Choose evidence-based executive function strategies that target organization, task initiation, and impulse control in youth with ADHD.
3. Identify family-centered approaches that reduce conflict and improve daily routines for children and teens with ADHD.
4. Choose appropriate classroom interventions that enhance focus, reduce disruptions, and improve academic engagement for students with ADHD.
5. Identify strengths-based techniques for addressing technology overuse, peer issues, and risk-taking behaviors in adolescents with ADHD.
6. Examine current research on ADHD medications and alternative treatments to help families make informed care decisions.

Outline

An Integrative Approach to ADHD

• The “Why” of this approach: skill development, self-esteem and success at school and in life
• The challenges of ADHD through an intersectional lens
• The 5 C’s of ADHD model for empowerment for neurodivergent clients
• Limitation of research and potential risks
• Client handout: 5 C’s of ADHD

Assessment and Treatment Planning

• Key factors for accurate diagnosis: Neurobiology, trauma, co-occurring disorders
• Tips to engage kids and families in treatment planning and interventions
• Pros and cons of stimulant and non-stimulant medication options
• Client education: Medication and alternatives
• Experiential Activity: Differential Diagnosis
• Client handout: Collaborative Goal-Setting

Executive Functioning Skills

• Environmental influences: Sleep, technology, social media, diet and exercise
• Top 10 strategies to explicitly teach skills like planning, organizing, and time management
• Tips to motivate the unmotivated
• Working memory supports and metacognition development
• Obstacles related to shame and low self-confidence and how to overcome them
• Experiential activity: The Procrastination Puzzle

ADHD at School

• Apply executive functioning tools in the classroom to improve productivity
• Framework for building parent-school alliances
• Tools to support healthy peer relationships
• CBT, DBT, and mindfulness strategies to improve distress tolerance and build emotional resilience
• Experiential Activity: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack
• Client handout: KISS for task initiation

ADHD at Home

• Positive habits for sleep, nutrition and fitness
• Effective daily routines to increase cooperation and reduce conflict
• Healthy boundaries for technology and social media use
• Interventions to:
  • Avoid homework hassles
  • Manage emotional outbursts with key communication techniques
  • Improve sibling relationships
  • Teach self-control, compassion, and collaboration
  • Empower caregivers with psychoeducation and strategies for self-care
• Experiential Activity: Family Work Time
• Caregiver handout: Say This Not That

ADHD in Therapy

• Strategies to address underlying shame, anxiety and low-self-esteem
• Activities to help kids accept their ADHD brains – strengths and challenges
• Tips to navigate setbacks and refusal to participate
• Interventions to support co-regulation in families
• Experiential Activity: personal Narratives and Self-sabotaging Behaviors
• Caregiver handout: Co-Regulation Strategies for Tweens

Teens and ADHD

• Address risky behaviors: Substance use, bullying, and technology
• Promote safe decision-making on and offline
• Reduce social anxiety
• Experiential Activity: Common Bullying Scenarios and Useful Interventions
• Client Worksheet: My Values, My Time

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Teachers
• School Administrators
• Occupational Therapists
• Physicians
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Nurses
• Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children