TREATMENTS

TREATMENTS

TED TALK: THIS IS WHAT IT'S REALLY LIKE TO LIVE WITH ADHD BY JESSICA MCCABE

10:15-11:11

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FILL IN THE BLANKS GAME

_________ medication boosts the neurotransmitters, wich is why it helps us focus.

Stimulant

Calming

Catalyzer

IIt's very effective for around ______ people with ADHD.

FILL IN THE BLANKS GAME

_________ medication boosts the neurotransmitters, wich is why it helps us focus.

Stimulant

Stimulant

Calming

Catalyzer

IIt's very effective for around ______ people with ADHD.

70

80

90

FILL IN THE BLANKS GAME

_________ medication boosts the neurotransmitters, wich is why it helps us focus.

Stimulant

Stimulant

Calming

Catalyzer

IIt's very effective for around ______ people with ADHD.

80 %

70

80

90

MEDICATION

NON STIMULANT MEDICATION

STIMULANT MEDICATION

• It is the most recommended medication because it is the most effective.
• There is a deficit of two neurotransmitters in ADHD: dopamine and norepinephrine.
• Stimulant medication stimulates the brain cells to produce more dopamine and norepinephrine.
• It helps focusing and controling impulses.

• For patients who don't tolerate or who don't see benefits from stimulant medication.
• They increase the dopamine and norepinephrine concentrations in the brain by preventing their destruction.
• They are less effective than stimulant medication.

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Effective

And I learned that medication isn't __________ .

Enough

Working

It impairs _______ functions like planning and organizing.

FILL IN THE BLANKS GAME

And I learned that medication isn't __________ .

enough

Effective

Enough

Working

It impairs _______ functions like planning and organizing.

Emotional

Neurological

Executive

FILL IN THE BLANKS GAME

Effective

And I learned that medication isn't __________ .

enough

Enough

Working

It impairs ____________ functions like planning and organizing.

Emotional

executive

Neurological

Executive

FILL IN THE BLANKS GAME

Cognitive ___________ therapy, coaching, even meditation or regular ______________ .

Behavioral

Training

Feedback

Cognitive ________ therapy, coaching, even meditation or regular ______________ .

FILL IN THE BLANKS GAME

Cognitive ____________ therapy, coaching, even meditation or regular ______________ .

Behavioral

behavioral

Training

Feedback

Vitamin intake

Cognitive ___________ therapy, coaching, even meditation or regular ______________ .

behavioral

Naps

Exercise

FILL IN THE BLANKS GAME

Cognitive ____________ therapy, coaching, even meditation or regular ______________ .

Behavioral

behavioral

Training

exercise

Feedback

Cognitive ___________ therapy, coaching, even meditation or regular ______________ .

Vitamin intake

behavioral

Naps

exercise

Exercise

THERAPY FOR CHILDREN

PLAY THERAPY

BEHAVIORAL THERAPY

• Connect
• Learn
• Provide reassurance
• Calm anxiety
• Improve self-esteem
• Play is an indirect way for therapists to change children's perceptions, cognitions and behaviors.

• Reinforce good behavior with a reward system
• Discourage negative behavior by ignoring it
• Take away a priviledge if the negative behavior is too serious to ignore
• Remove common triggers of bad behavior

THERAPY FOR ADULTS/TEENAGERS

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY

DIALECTAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY

• Goal: managing behaviors, emotions and thoughts
• Weekly group sessions with four modules:
• Mindfulness skilss
• Distress tolerance
• Interpersonal effectiveness skills: helping people understanding their needs in relationships, listening and communicating effectively
• Emotional regulation skills

• Goal: changing negative patterns of thinking and modify the way the person thinks about themself and their ADHD symptoms.
• It corrects distorted thought processes such as :
• All-or-nothing thinking
• "Should" statements
• Comparative thinking

THERAPY FOR EVERYONE

ADHD COACHING

NEUROFEEDBACK

Professionally trained coaches assist their clients in building skills like:

• Time, task, and space management
• Motivation
• Strategic planning
• Healthy communications and relationships

• Reduce impulsitivity and increase attentiveness
• Training the brain to emit brain-wave patterns associated with focus
• Wearing electrods on the head to read the brain waves

HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

SCREEN TIME

SLEEP

• Worsens the symptoms
• Emotional dysregulation
• Less motivation
• Sleep problems
• Hits of dopamine

• ADHD affects sleep patterns.
• People take longer to fall asleep, have more risk to wake up during the night.
• Healthy sleeping routine is important.

EXERCISE

MINDFULNESS

• Elevates the brain concentrations of dopamine, norepipephrine and serotonin
• Put to use the attention system and all of the executive functions

• Improving the abillity to focus
• Develop a different relationship to stressful situations