How to Help Clients with ADHD (& Others) Improve Productivity
One of the biggest complaints from (and about) adults with ADHD is their struggles with productivity. This has significant repercussions in academic, professional, personal, and interpersonal functioning. Better tools and systems, like online calendars with reminders, can be helpful, but these clients often struggle to use them consistently, frustrating themselves, their family, and their therapist. What gets in the way between the intention and the action?
Dr. Tuckman returns to share a strategy-loaded presentation to help clients with ADHD address the various mental barriers to productivity, such as perfectionism, deadline stress, overwhelm, ambiguity, fake productivity, and rationalization. He will also discuss how to help clients decide how productive they really need to be and how to handle other people’s expectations and disappointments. While focused on working with clients with ADHD, much of this will be beneficial with other clients in your caseload.
https://nefesh.org/workshops/GetIt/viewFREE WEBINAR
Get It Done:
How to Help Clients with ADHD (& Others) Improve Productivity
Friday, June 13, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Presenter: Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA
Course Length: 3 Hours
Learning Objectives:
- Apply active strategies to help clients with ADHD be more productive
- Identify how various mental processes interfere with productivity for clients with ADHD
- Explain how clients with ADHD can create a healthy balance between meeting others’ expectations and asserting their own desires
This workshop Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
One of the biggest complaints from (and about) adults with ADHD is their struggles with productivity. This has significant repercussions in academic, professional, personal, and interpersonal functioning. Better tools and systems, like online calendars with reminders, can be helpful, but these clients often struggle to use them consistently, frustrating themselves, their family, and their therapist. What gets in the way between the intention and the action?
Dr. Tuckman returns to share a strategy-loaded presentation to help clients with ADHD address the various mental barriers to productivity, such as perfectionism, deadline stress, overwhelm, ambiguity, fake productivity, and rationalization. He will also discuss how to help clients decide how productive they really need to be and how to handle other people’s expectations and disappointments. While focused on working with clients with ADHD, much of this will be beneficial with other clients in your caseload.
Learning Objectives:
- Apply active strategies to help clients with ADHD be more productive
- Identify how various mental processes interfere with productivity for clients with ADHD
- Explain how clients with ADHD can create a healthy balance between meeting others’ expectations and asserting their own desires
Agenda:
- ADHD Makes Productivity Harder (30 minutes)
- Neurology drives psychology
- Social implications
- Goals of treatment
- Should Your Client Take Medication? (15 minutes)
- Help your clients think through their feelings about medication
- A Productive Mindset (75 minutes)
- The lies we tell ourselves
- Just bite the bullet on things you hate
- No, that’s fake productivity
- The love and hate of deadlines
- How perfect does this need to be?
- Overwhelm: Break down big tasks
- Ambiguity: What am I doing here?
- Managing the Social Repercussions (30 minutes)
- How productive do you really need to be?
- Disappoint & disagree with grace
- Discussion & Q&A (30 minutes)
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
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