Mindfulness for Adult ADHD
Mindfulness for Adult ADHD

Author: Lidia Zylowska

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2020-12-14

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1462544924

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Mindfulness has emerged as a valuable component of treatment for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This concise manual presents an evidence-based group intervention specifically tailored to the needs of this population. The Mindful Awareness Practices for ADHD (MAPs) program helps participants cultivate self-regulation of attention, emotions, and behavior; awareness of ADHD challenges; self-acceptance; and self-compassion. With a stepwise teaching approach and meditation periods that are shorter than in other mindfulness programs, MAPs is designed to optimize learning. Included are step-by-step instructions for conducting the eight sessions, scripts for guided meditations, 32 reproducible handouts and session summaries, and “Adaptation for Individual Therapy” boxes. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download printable copies of the reproducible tools and audio recordings of the guided practices.

The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD
The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD

Author: Lidia Zylowska, MD

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0834827700

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Don’t let adult ADHD stand in your way—this 8-step mindfulness program provides you with the tools you need to stay focused and confident in all areas of your life Do you: • Have trouble paying attention and staying on task? • Suffer from disorganization, procrastination, or forgetfulness? • Have difficulty with restlessness or trouble managing strong feelings such as anger and frustration? • Struggle with self-doubt and difficulty following through? • In a way that causes problems in your relationships or your work? If so, you may have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)—like an estimated 8 million adults in this country. Physician-researcher Dr. Lidia Zylowska has created an 8-step program for using mindfulness practice (attention and awareness training) to overcome the symptoms of ADHD. The program includes practices such as sitting meditation, body awareness, thoughtful speaking and listening, development of self-acceptance, mindful self-coaching, cultivation of a balanced view of thoughts and emotions, and more. Dr. Zylowska educates readers about ADHD, helping them to understand how their ADHD brain works and how they can use mindful awareness to work with their challenges. She also explains how the mindful approach can be combined with other treatments, including medications, to boost self-improvement. This book is accompanied by an audio program of guided mindfulness exercises for successfully managing ADHD. The introduction to the book, titled “Dear Reader,” includes a link to the free downloadable audio files.

Mindful Parenting
Mindful Parenting

Author: Susan Bögels

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-09-18

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 146147406X

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Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply—and the quality of parenting suffers—when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the constant changes as children develop can tax parents' inner resources, often undoing the best intentions and parenting courses. Mindful Parenting: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners offers an evidence-based, eight week structured mindfulness training program for parents with lasting benefits for parents and their children. Designed for use in mental health contexts, its methods are effective whether parents or children have behavioral or emotional issues. The program's eight sessions focus on mindfulness-oriented skills for parents, such as responding to (as opposed to reacting to) parenting stress, handling conflict with children or partners, fostering empathy, and setting limits. The book dovetails with other clinical mindfulness approaches, and is written clearly and accessibly so that professionals can learn the material easily and impart it to clients. Featured in the text: Detailed theoretical, clinical, and empirical foundations of the program. The complete Mindful Parenting manual with guidelines for eight sessions and a follow-up. Handouts and assignments for each session. Findings from clinical trials of the Mindful Parenting program. Perspectives from parents who have finished the course. Its clinical focus and empirical support make Mindful Parenting an invaluable tool for practitioners and clinicians in child, school, and family psychology, psychotherapy/counseling, psychiatry, social work, and developmental psychology.

Mindful Parenting for ADHD
Mindful Parenting for ADHD

Author: Mark Bertin

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1626251819

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Written by a pediatrician and based in proven-effective mindfulness techniques, this book will help you and your child with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) keep calm, flexible, and in control. If you are a parent of a child with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you probably face many unique daily challenges. Kids with ADHD are often inattentive, hyperactive, and impulsive, since ADHD affects all of self-management and self-regulation. As a result, you might become chronically frustrated or stressed out, which makes caring for ADHD that much harder. In this book, a developmental pediatrician presents a proven-effective program for helping both you and your child with ADHD stay cool and collected while remaining flexible, resilient, and mindful. Bertin addresses the various symptoms of ADHD using non-technical language and a user-friendly format. In addition, he offers guidelines to help you assess your child's strengths and weaknesses, create plans for building skills and managing specific challenges, lower stress levels for both yourself and your child, communicate effectively, and cultivate balance and harmony at home and at school. If you are a parent, caregiver, or mental health professional, this book provides a valuable guide.

ADHD Mindfulness Therapy
ADHD Mindfulness Therapy

Author: Positive Parenting Educational Project

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-16

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13:

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Do you believe your son lazy? Has he got bad school results? does he seem indifferent to many of the external stimuli? or, on the contrary, Do you find him clever but nervous and restless? maybe he is also disorganized or distracted? This book will do for you, just keep reading... ...Above mentioned behaviors are only a few examples to identify ADHD in children. ADHD gives kids a GREAT potential and the role of parents becomes crucial to develop a strong and successful personality. With the aid of ADHD Mindfulness Therapy, you will be able to unlock your kid's opportunity to live a life rich and full of abundance by increasing focus and overcoming insecurities. The aim of the book is to support kids and parents by helping them to build and happy and durable relation. You will discover important skills to thrive with ADHD, and how to consider the Deficit as "a gift to be used". Stop seeing it as a problem to be solved! "listening and mutual understanding are fundamentals to overcome the troubles that ADHD can cause to children and parents" - Saline Cure (psychologist of the project) ★ As a parent, you will learn a series of winning measures in order to reach a great level of trust and connection with every kid. In summary, you will discover: The thinking process of a disordered kid A few tips to maintain your child active and happy Mindfulness Therapy healing effects: on anxiety ✓ on focus ✓ on hyperactivity ✓ on anger ✓ The strategy declined to other common disorders: ADD/ODD/ BIPOLARISM A lot of Home and School-Based Mindfulness Activities for Kids Ready to listen guided-hypnosis designed for ADHD kids (you can listen in a loop)(only audible version) How to Mindfulness Meditation and Hypnotherapy (the most powerful method to increase focus and obtain results) ⚠ You might be hesitant about the integrated therapies that the book offers... No one can guarantee miracles or exceptional healings towards curing ADHD, furthermore a huge number of researches and testimony strongly confirm how much a disordered child can benefit from mindfulness and activities for empathy. We care about what can help children! Do NOT let this chance pass you by. If you've been looking for effective strategies and information you are in the right place... Scroll up the page and select the BUY NOW Button! Notice that the book content suits the needs of toddlers, grade-schoolers, and teenagers. (you NEED this guide if you want to make your son free to express himself) Scroll up the page and select the BUY NOW Button!

Mindfulness for Kids with ADHD
Mindfulness for Kids with ADHD

Author: Debra Burdick

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1684031095

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Help your child with ADHD thrive. Mindfulness for Kids with ADHD offers fun and accessible mindfulness exercises designed to help kids with ADHD successfully navigate all the areas of life—from making friends and doing well in school to establishing healthy habits and limiting screen time. As a parent, you know that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can make the normal developmental tasks of childhood more difficult to accomplish in numerous ways. These tasks include: making friends, doing well in school, organizing belongings and schoolwork, identifying and managing feelings, developing a positive self image, getting along with family members, following rules, doing chores, establishing a healthy sleep pattern, eating a healthy diet, and making good choices about exercise and use of screen time. The activities in this easy-to-use workbook will help your child develop self-awareness and self-reflection—two skills that kids with ADHD typically need extra help with. The book also illustrates and teaches the process of setting intention and using specific mindfulness skills to identify and improve feelings, self-image, behavior, stress level, concentration, hyperactivity, and relationships. If you’re a parent of a child with ADHD, you may feel conflicted about the best treatment options available. Whether used alone or in conjunction with therapy, this powerful workbook provides real skills your child can use every day to improve their quality of life and help them enjoy being a kid!

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD

Author: Mark Bertin

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Published: 2021-05

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1684036402

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A powerful and compassionate guide for cultivating self-confidence, independence, and the executive functioning skills you need to live your best life! Being a teen with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) doesn’t stop you from wanting what almost every other teen wants: independence, good grades, and a healthy social life. But ADHD also presents obstacles that can keep you from reaching your goals. At times you may become frustrated, sad, or even angry at your inability to achieve the things you want. This book can help. This unique guide will help you develop the skills you need to strengthen your executive functioning, foster the self-compassion essential to overcoming self-criticism often caused by ADHD, and gain the confidence and resilience necessary to take control of your ADHD—and your life. You’ll also learn how to manage your emotions, focus, practice flexible problem solving, change habits, and improve communication skills. Finally, you’ll learn how these skills can improve your relationships with friends and family, and help you succeed in school—and life! Your ADHD doesn’t have to define you, and it certainly doesn’t have to determine your life. This book will allow you to step off the path of self-criticism, and guide you on the path toward self-compassion, self-confidence, and success.

Mastering Your Adult ADHD
Mastering Your Adult ADHD

Author: Steven A. Safren

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0190671726

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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adulthood is a prevalent and impairing disorder. While medications have been effective in treating adult ADHD, the majority of individuals treated with medications still have symptoms that require additional skills and symptom management strategies. This Second Edition of Mastering Your Adult ADHD is thoroughly updated to present the most current, empirically supported treatment strategies in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for coping with symptoms of adult ADHD. The Therapist Guide provides clinicians with effective means of teaching adult clients skills that have been scientifically tested and shown to help them cope with ADHD. The program has been updated to include the optional use of technology and smart phones to improve organization and planning. Core modules cover the development of systems for keeping track of appointments and tasks, reducing distractibility, and improving adaptive thinking skills, and there's an optional module on reducing procrastination. Information is also provided regarding holding an informational meeting with a spouse, partner, or family member. The step-by-step, session-by-session descriptions are a practical resource for therapists who deliver the treatment. The companion Client Workbook contains all of the necessary information for participating in the practical CBT intervention. It includes worksheets, forms, and a link to an assessment measure that can be used to gauge progress during treatment.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for OCD
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for OCD

Author: Fabrizio Didonna

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 146254052X

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This book presents the first treatment program that adapts the proven practices of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) to meet the unique needs of people struggling with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Leading authority Fabrizio Didonna shows how techniques such as "mindful exposure" are uniquely suited to help OCD sufferers overcome intrusive thoughts and compulsive rituals while developing a new relationship to their internal experience. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes detailed instructions for implementing each of the 11 group sessions, complete with reproducible scripts for the guided mindfulness practices and 79 client handouts. Purchasers can download and print the reproducible materials at the companion website, which also provides audio recordings of the guided practices. A separate website for clients features the audio files and scripts only.

Barkley Adult ADHD Rating Scale-IV (BAARS-IV)
Barkley Adult ADHD Rating Scale-IV (BAARS-IV)

Author: Russell A. Barkley

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1609182030

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The Barkley Adult ADHD Rating Scale-IV (BAARS-IV) offers an essential tool for assessing current ADHD symptoms and domains of impairment as well as recollections of childhood symptoms. Directly linked to DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, the scale includes both self-report and other-report forms (for example, spouse, parent, or sibling). Not only is the BAARS-IV empirically based, reliable, and valid, but it is also exceptionally convenient to use. The long version takes the average adult 5-7 minutes to complete, and the Quick Screen takes only 3-5 minutes. Special features include a section of items assessing the newly identified symptoms of sluggish cognitive tempo, also known as the inattentive-only subtype of ADHD. Complete instructions for scoring and interpreting the scale are provided. See also the Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale (BDEFS for Adults), which assesses clinically significant executive functioning difficulties, and the Barkley Functional Impairment Scale (BFIS for Adults), which evaluates 15 major domains of psychosocial functioning. Includes Permission to Photocopy Enhancing the convenience and value of the BAARS-IV, the limited photocopy license allows purchasers to reproduce the forms and score sheets and yields considerable cost savings over other available scales. The large format and sturdy wire binding facilitate photocopying.