Dr. Margaret Sibley is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She has authored over 120 scholarly publications on ADHD in adolescence and adulthood with research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Institute of Education Sciences. She is Secretary of the American Professional Society for ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD), a Professional Advisory Board Member for Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Attention Disorders. She is the author of Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD: Building Skills and Motivation published by Guilford Press in 2017.
Please send your questions prior to the meeting to info@eastside-chadd.org.
Building Autonomy and Self-Motivation in Students with ADHD
Self-regulation challenges, heightened moodiness, social anxieties, and increased academic demands can intensify the pressure bearing down on students with ADHD. With deficits in the areas of executive functioning and motivation, many students become checked out and stressed out, frustrated by the constant struggle to keep up in class. These students appear unmotivated, and unwilling, to do class assignments and homework. Their refrain: Why bother?
This leads caregivers and educators to feel exasperated — unsure how to balance autonomy, support, and accountability for underperformance in their students. They want to motivate them to reach their potential, but they’re unsure how.
In this presentation, caregivers and educators will learn:
How the biology impacts motivation and executive functioning in adolescents and teens
How to help students adopt self-motivation strategies and lifelong skills to manage their ADHD
Practical approaches that students with ADHD can follow to compensate for executive functioning challenges
How to set goals to develop a student’s self-confidence and how to find a niche in which they can be successful and achieve autonomy from adults
Registration now open for members and non-members.
To register, please email info@eastside-chadd.org and include the following information:
° 1. Put the word “MOTIVATION" in the subject line.
° 2. Your first and last name
° 3. Your Eastside CHADD membership number
° 4. Email address to receive the ZOOM link (If it's different than the one you used to send the email)
° 5. Telephone number so we can contact you in the event of changes to the scheduled event
If you need to cancel your reservation, please notify us immediately (at info@Eastside-CHADD.org) so that your space can be given to another person.
Please note that this presentation will not be recorded, so please join us 10 minutes before 7 p.m. to learn how to support your children, your clients and your students.
The Zoom invitation will be sent before Monday, October 21st.
If you have still not received your invitation by 12 noon on Monday, October 21st, please immediately email info@Eastside-CHADD.org and we will send you a new link.
