ADHD Coaching
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- Written by: Dave Pughe-Parry
Around the turn of the century ADHD Coaching burst onto the scene as a treatment for ADHD. Unlike therapy which is non-directive, coaching is by it´s very nature directive. Coaching combined with appropriate medication enables major changes to the current way of life to be made. To make considerable and sustainable changes the other 6 components of our Basic ADHD Treatment Wheel should be implemented.
Coaching is working with what is presented and changing behaviour to what is desirable and agreed with the client.
I have developed an Impairments Assessment which provides the coach with scores over 20 different categories of behaviour. Using the profile resulting from the assessment I develop a coaching programme to bring about the changes.
This graph has been anonymised but shows clearly on the right the impact of the ADHD issues which are reflected on the left.
It is very rare that a "100%" score is attained. This "steeple profile" with plunging lows and climbing highs usually indicated a person who is working very hard to "correct" aspects of their ADHD behaviour.
It also indicates just how complex ADHD can be and difficult making behaviour changes are.
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ADHD Coaching - especially the One2One version is the gold standard when it comes to non-medication treatments. It must be understood that there is no single treatment that can claim to manage the condition.
Coaching is the second-most effective part of our ADHD Basic Treatment Wheel. The most effective part of that wheel is medication, but only for those whose ADHD is mild, and have a full range supportive structures around them.
Medication and ADHD Coaching are a powerful combination together, in all likelihood the best combination available.
ADHD is very susceptible to environmental influences. So parents, teachers, and sports coaches all play an outsized role in how a child and teenager with ADHD will turnout as an adult.
All ADDers have an exaggerated low self esteem. To raise self esteem you need to build a track record of success that must be recognized and acknowledged by those in the ADDer's envrionment.
Please look at the section on the our Basic Treatment Wheel.
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Not everyone has the time or the resources to to go through One2One coaching. So we offer a shortened version of the modules delivered in various combinations.
These are done in small groups ranging from 3 to 12 participants at a time. This size group ensure that everyone gets the maximum out of the coaching.
The group members also tend to create bonds that last for long after the coaching has finished.
These are also offered at different times of the day and are all online with access to the material on our dedicated learning site
All of my ADHD Coaching is done online, it is by far the best way to do coaching, as you, the client, is in your own territory, therefore my clients are always at ease.
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You might ask why women have their own category while the males don´t?
There are a number of reasons.
- The majority of women who have ADHD have a different type to the men. The men are mainly of the hyperactive type, while women have what is called the inattentive type.
- Due to the point above, girls slip through the cracks while the boys are getting diagnosed and treated at school; the girls become untreated women with years more damage than the men.
- When it comes to cruelty to their own, females easily outstrip their male brethren. This specific type of emotional abuse is long lasting and is exaggerated by the super-sensitive ADHD women.
- My definition of low self-esteem is, ‟I´ll do anything, just love me!” This is much easier to accomplish for women than men, but the impact of that humiliating process is much greater than men.
Perhaps now that you have the read the above reasons, you agree with me that women need their own section when it comes to ADHD Coaching.
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- Written by: Pat Pughe-Parry
You have just received a diagnosis of ADHD (Attention, Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder). You officially have a "disorder". For most folk this comes as a shock. 😨
You (or your spouse) possibly suspected that you had the condition, and scoured the internet for someone who could diagnose you one way or the other.
Or perhaps, like I did, you lived for many years in blissful ignorance.
But … the ignorance hasn’t been bliss, has it?
Living a roller coaster life inevitably leads to anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. Personal and work relationship problems have resulted in divorce, getting fired or quickly changing jobs to avoid the humiliation of being fired.
Print Edition is long since sold out, the revised pdf version available soon
I have been coaching people with ADHD for 20-plus years, and I know that they either have lots of money or hardly any.
