Are you seeking solid but easy-to-understand information about Adult ADHD, including:
ADHD Success Training can help you.
If you have not lived with Adult ADHD-in yourself or a loved one-it’s impossible to grasp the depth and breadth of potential challenges. That goes double when the diagnosis comes later in life.
Over the years, what started (but was never recognized) as ADHD in childhood has morphed into a murky mix of symptoms, misinterpretations, negative feedback, and counter-productive coping responses. With parents and siblings. With teachers. With the world. And with the intimate partners.
We help you clearly break out all the moving parts-and re-assemble them in a more positive configuration.
Think of it as de-constructing-and re-constructing-your ADHD Roller Coaster. This time without mysterious twists and turns-and teeth-rattling drops.
Because standard therapy-for individuals and couples-does not include an in-depth orientation to ADHD’s neurobiological challenges or their treatments.
Too often, standard therapy focuses only on emotions-not on critically important training in solving your particular challenges, around, for example:
We fill the void with direct-to-consumer training. It’s available at your convenience, 24-7.
Friends, family members, and even therapists want to help. But their advice typically falls flat. It can even compound shame and isolation.
Even well-qualified ADHD specialists struggle to extend their expertise to relationships. There can be a tendency to recruit the “partner of” as a secretary or helper. An untenable strategy, at best. In the end, helpful to neither partner-nor the relationship.
Standard couple therapy won’t suffice. Individual ADHD therapy isn’t enough. What does that leave? A merging of proven principles from both couple therapy and ADHD therapy: Adult ADHD-Focused Couple Therapy™.
Are you asking, “How can I…..”
-Accommodate my own or my partner’s ADHD-related challenges without tilting the relationship out of balance (“parent and child” or “nagger and nagged”)?
-Re-discover the joy, fun, and attraction that brought us together?
-Cooperate more reliably and harmoniously in parenting children, who might or might not have ADHD?
-Communicate in a way that we both feel heard and understood?
-Learn strategies to cooperatively manage time, money, chores, electronic devices, and….intimacy?
-Better understand medication and how to work as a team with my prescriber?
-Work together on strategies to improve organization around time, priorities, and “stuff”?
You will find answers here at ADHD Success Training.
These common questions and many more guided the effort behind two landmark books on Adult ADHD-related challenges and strategies, especially as they can affect relationships:
, by Gina Pera (1201 Alarm Press, 2008)In turn, these guides inform the comprehensive strategies in ADHD Success Training. This online training-one track for consumers and another for clinicians-provides a deeper and broader level of understanding.
We offer a parallel training for professionals-and a new ADHD Professional Directory to help you find each other. Understand the principles and strategies behind Adult ADHD-Focused Couple Therapy™ in order to work better with a therapist trained in these interventions?
Who Can This Training Help?Beyond the couples themselves, individuals can benefit from ADHD Success Training, too, including
The format consists of narrated video presentations, chapter by chapter, 15-30 minutes each, augmented with:
Proceed at your own pace. Re-visit previous lessons as much as you like!
Training is organized by topic and sub-topic, each generally 10-15 minutes long. These short modules make for a quick “refresher course” on a given topic.
Moreover, you need not scan an hour-long (or longer) video or re-read dozens of pages just to find the section you need right then.
For example, if you forget the chief purposes of the daily “couple’s check-in” or the strategies around chore-sharing, you can review just that segment.
If you have an Internet connection and can access our site, the courses are always at your fingertips.
We will welcome your feedback and work to steadily improve the content and develop new material.
With a combined 55 years experience, Gina Per and Arthur L. Robin, PhD, are respected experts in the field of Adult ADHD, particularly as it can affect relationships. You can learn more about our backgrounds at About the Presenters.
You will find camaraderie and peer support through a variety of potential virtual outlets-for example, Zoom meetings.
Many countries do not recognize Adult ADHD. Yet, epidemiological studies indicate the prevalence is roughly the same worldwide. We hope these courses serve participants who might otherwise lack resources and guidance.
Consumers have grown rightfully wary of therapists who claim Adult ADHD expertise yet actually know less than their clients-or fail to recognize ADHD at all.
For years, readers of Gina’s book have written to ask her for recommendations nationwide-and even worldwide.
Having been in the same situation years ago, she knows first-hand how vulnerable these couples can be. They often hang preciously at the end of their ropes, following years of discord and attempts at marital therapy that failed to recognize ADHD.
Sometimes, one or the other partner is willing to give it only “one shot.” Much rides on their selection of that first mental-health professional.
To serve both consumers and clinicians, our International ADHD Professional Directory is more specialized:
Professional Level 1 training is available now. It is based on reading Adult ADHD-Focused Couple Therapy and passing a 20-question multiple-choice test (80% is passing).
Consumers and Professionals: Expect Level 2 training f by early 2021.
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In the meantime, Gina has offered these free sources of support for many years (donations welcome!):
Contact Gina via “Contact” at the top of any page.
Since 2008, Gina has written a blog about all aspects of ADHD: ADHD Roller Coaster, and it has been named a Healthline “Top ADHD Blog” every year since 2014.
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