“Parenting Resistant Tweens and Teens with ADHD: Getting Buy-In from Your Adolescent” [Video Replay & Podcast #543]
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Episode Description
Does your tween or teen say ‘No’ as an automatic reflex? Do they dismiss your advice and often do the exact opposite? Do you feel powerless in halting their bad choices as they exert independence and ‘learn the hard way?’
If every day feels like a battle, and your child seems to make things unnecessarily difficult, you are not alone. Parenting tweens and teens with ADHD — and enduring their continued efforts to frustrate you at every turn — takes stamina, patience, and compassion. From intense emotional eruptions and friendship drama to snarky attitudes and bold defiance, adolescents with ADHD seem to cycle through self-defeating and self-destructive patterns exacerbated by puberty. These behaviors are ineffective attempts to hide the worry, frustration, hopelessness, and shame that they feel deep inside. How can you join with your adolescent to create and meet meaningful goals related to school and home life?
In this webinar, Sharon Saline, Psy.D., pulls back the curtain and shows you how to talk with kids about what’s really going on, how to create opportunities for collaborative solutions, and how to reduce conflict at home and at school. She will show you effective strategies for avoiding blowouts, improving motivation, and repairing relationship ruptures. You’ll learn practical techniques for transforming stuckness and obstinacy into optimism and cooperation.
In this webinar, you will learn how to…
- Understand the biopsychology of adolescent development.
- Identify collaborative interventions for self-defeating behavioral and psychological patterns in tweens and teens.
- Explain practical, strength-based approaches for dealing with resistant, oppositional kids that foster cooperation.
- Develop self-esteem and resilience in challenging adolescents.
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Teens with ADHD: More Resources
- Free Download: Transform Your Teen’s Apathy Into Engagement
- Self-Test: Could Your Child Have Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
- Read: You Can’t Change Your Defiant Teenager…
- Read: “Take a Sabbatical from Teaching and Judging”
Obtain a Certificate of Attendance
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Meet the Expert Speaker
Sharon Saline, Psy.D., 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, emerging adults and families living with ADHD, anxiety, learning disabilities, autism, twice exceptionality and mental health issues. Her unique perspective, as a sibling in an ADHD home, combined with decades of experience as a clinical psychologist and educator/clinician consultant, assists her in guiding families and adults toward effective communication and closer connections. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as understanding ADHD, executive functioning, anxiety, motivation, different kinds of learners, and the teen brain. Dr. Saline is a regular contributor to ADDitudemag.com and PsychologyToday.com, a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV, and a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. Her writing has been featured in numerous online and print publications including MSN, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, ADDitude Magazine, Psych Central, and Inquirer.com. Learn more at www.drsharonsaline.com.
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