Pesi – ADHD Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) Course

Now more than ever, clients are rethinking ADHD diagnosis and treatments – and so should you.

This is why we’ve gathered a multidisciplinary panel of TEN leading experts to provide you with the most comprehensive ADHD self-study certification course so…

You can finally treat any client, at any stage of their development.

What You’ll Learn In ADHD Clinical Services Provider

Enroll now and you’ll get…

• Updated research and advancements in diagnosis, medication, and non-medication treatments… not just for youth, but your adult clients too
• Tried-and-true interventions from the foremost ADHD experts with decades of experience who’ve trained thousands of clinicians like you (this course has more solutions for adult clients than any other we offer!)
• The latest evidence-based strategies to manage ADHD in an educational setting AND at work
• Captivating case studies and specific evidence-based strategies organized in a way for you to easily help your clients — whether they are children or adults — become and achieve their best selves in school or on the job, in family dynamics, adult relationships, and more

COURSE TRAINING SCHEDULE — LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE!

You’ll get TEN incredible self-study modules organized into three easy sections that cover integral areas you’ll face with clients of any age or stage of their treatment. PLUS, register now to get printable handouts, client exercises and case studies you can’t get anywhere else so you can provide transformational change immediately!

Best of all, this training meets ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) Certification*. Not only will you stay up-to-date on the latest research… you can become a top expert in the field of ADHD! Click here for course objectives and outline.

I. ADHD Across the Lifespan: Assessment, Medication & Non-Medication Essentials

• Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication
• ADHD in Children and Adolescents: Advances in Diagnosis, Treatment and Management
• Rethinking ADHD: A New Treatment Approach
• Psychopharmacology: Essential Updates for Mental Health Professionals

II. Treatment Strategies to Help Your Adult Clients Thrive

• Extended Adolescence – When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood
• Time Management & Executive Functioning Strategies for Adults with ADHD
• ADHD at Work: Strategies to Help Clients Survive & Thrive in Their Careers
• ADHD, Relationships, and Sex: Strategies to Overcome the Over/Under-Functioner Dynamic

III. Managing ADHD in an Educational Setting

• Identifying and Treating the 1 in 5 students with ADHD and Learning Disabilities who are Returning to School Misdiagnosed and Misunderstood
• CBT Strategies for Kids and Adolescents: Supporting Students with ADHD and Anxiety

ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) ADHD Certification: Groundbreaking Interventions to Thrive with ADHD from Childhood to Adulthood

SECTION I: ADHD Across the Lifespan: Assessment, Medication & Non-Medication Essentials
On-demand video modules & handouts to keep forever

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication
Stephanie Sarkis, PhD, NCC, DCMHS, LMHC

Already have clients diagnosed with ADHD who prefer not to take medication? Whether they have concerns about side effects or long-term use… get up-to-date training about non-medication and alternative interventions for ADHD. Get the most common non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation and neurofeedback. You’ll also learn a variety of practical strategies that can be implemented immediately and at a low cost.

Learn how to navigate the vast research on exercise, movement, diet, sleep, disruptive technologies, supplements and the impact of the environment on ADHD, summarizing the findings and applying the information to “real life.” From this module, you’ll get the tools and knowledge to develop a holistic approach to working with adults and children with ADHD.

ADHD in Children and Adolescents: Advances in Diagnosis, Treatment & Management
Russell A. Barkley, PhD

World-renowned ADHD expert, Dr. Russell Barkley, PhD, will walk you through a three-hour module highlighting new insights in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of ADHD. Packed with updated research and practical application, Dr. Barkley will walk you through:

• His latest research findings and what that means for treatment and management of ADHD today
• How to differentiate between ADHD and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) – and why it matters
• The startling correlation between untreated ADHD and premature, severe health problems
• Why an ADHD diagnosis lends itself to significant health problems and shorter life expectancy
• The evolution of ADHD as more than just an educational or mental health problem
• 14 best principles for managing ADHD in children and teens
• An update on the most recent evidence-based treatment recommendations

Rethinking ADHD: A New Treatment Approach
Edward Hallowell, MD
John J Ratey, MD

ADHD is too often misunderstood, even by professionals. Rather than treating it as a deficit or a disorder, the best outcomes derive from a new strengths-based model that reconceives ADHD as VAST (Variable Attention Stimulus Trait). In this module, you’ll discover cutting-edge interventions based on the VAST approach that can change the lives of clients of all ages. You’ll learn:

How to explain the VAST model to clients in plain language, so they start seeing and using their unique brain traits as an asset rather than a curse

The role of medication vs. nonmedication interventions for children and adults

How to help clients avoid the major pitfalls of VAST, such as chronic self-attack, rumination, underachievement, substance abuse and other addictions, poor relationship choices, and the consequences of disorganization

Psychopharmacology: Essential Updates for Mental Health Professionals
Kenneth Carter, PhD, ABPP

This intensive module focuses on providing practical and useful information about antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, and medication for insomnia, as well as the tools to handle the ethical decisions that surround psychopharmacology. Get the nuts and bolts on the most prescribed antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, and medication for insomnia on the market today, and learn how to discuss scope of practice with your patients in order to optimize their care. You’ll walk away better prepared to communicate with your clients as well as the prescribers.

Section II: Treatment Strategies to Help Your Adult Clients Thrive
On-demand video modules & handouts to keep forever

Extended Adolescence – When 25 Looks More Like 18: Clinical Strategies for Clients Struggling to Meet the Demands of Adulthood
Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP

Steve O’Brien, PsyD

Get the research and real-life understanding of the interplay of new technologies, socio-cultural shifts, and educational stressors that have created obstacles for Generation Z. Award-winning author and international speaker Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP, and national trainer and child/family consultant Steve O’Brien, PsyD, will lay out strategies to redefine and redesign your treatment approach to help young people forge a path to adulthood beyond extended adolescence. Don’t let traditional therapeutic tools hold you back! Get new skills to help clients meet the demands of adulthood. You will learn strategies to:

• Navigate ADHD, anxiety, autism and other obstacles to develop life skills
• Reprogram the dopamine-dependent brain
• Cultivate openness and flexibility with Gen Z culture
• Collaborate with well-intended but over-involved parents
• Instill motivation to advance real-world engagement
• Promote “connected independence” in young adults

ADHD at Work: Strategies to Help Clients Survive & Thrive in Their Careers
Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA

ADHD can introduce a myriad of problems into your clients’ professional lives. Their career history details a graveyard of failed aspirations — perfection that leads to procrastination, an inability to take feedback from colleagues and a lack of follow through on day-to-day office tasks. Fill your clinical toolbox with evidence-based interventions to get your clients thriving at work! Join ADHD expert Ari Tuckman to get essential and advanced strategies to help your adult clients with ADHD:

• Make wise disclosures with colleagues — when & how
• Take feedback without intense emotional reactions
• Balance their strengths & weaknesses to excel at work
• Meet deadlines by feeling the future in the present moment
• Avoid perfection & procrastinate with motivation
• Clarify career priorities & actually achieve them

Time Management & Executive Functioning Strategies for Adults with ADHD
Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA

Often adult ADHD clients’ poor time management negatively impacts therapy. They’re late for sessions, struggling to anticipate rewards or consequences of their actions and procrastinating on executing homework or practicing new skills. In this module, Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA, shows you how to help those clients combat the life interruptions that executive function and time management problems create. You’ll learn advanced skills to:

• Help clients set deadlines — and stick to them
• Customizable strategies for the 6 executive functions impacted by ADHD
• Get clients motivated by “feeling the future”
• Convert intentions into action
• Work effectively with clients’ “time horizon” and “temporal discounting”

ADHD, Relationships, and Sex: Strategies to Overcome the Over/Under-Functioner Dynamic
Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA

ADHD can exacerbate the universal struggles that every couple faces. Without specific strategies to shift this dynamic, you’ll get stuck in the same unwinnable battles with your couple clients – and if you’re not looking for ADHD in one of the partners, you could be missing the boat! Get the training you need to explicitly address ADHD (including the other partner’s response to it) and become the change agent for successful therapy with certified sex therapist and ADHD expert, Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA. This module covers an entirely fresh look at how to move couples forward in therapy:
Overcome ADHD’s mindset traps

• Escape the dynamics of the over- and under-functioner
• Create more sustainable agreements
• Negotiate each partner’s desires and needs and elevate a more satisfying sex life

Section III: Managing ADHD in an Educational Setting
On-demand video modules & handouts to keep forever

Identifying and Treating the 1 in 5 students with ADHD and Learning Disabilities who are Returning to School Misdiagnosed and Misunderstood
Lynne Kenney, PsyD

In this module, pediatric psychologist Dr. Lynne Kenney integrates research and practice from psychology, cognitive science, public health, education, kinesiology, occupational therapy, and speech-language therapy to provide a uniquely actionable perspective on the application of executive function, social-emotional, and sensory-motor skills poised to shift a generation of learners. You’ll get science-based strategies to enhance academic curriculum, cognitive skill-building, social-emotional learning, phonology, numeracy, physical literacy, and mental health equity awareness.

CBT Strategies for Kids and Adolescents: Supporting Students with ADHD and Anxiety
David M. Pratt, PhD, MSW

Engage with child and adolescent CBT expert David Pratt, PhD, MSW, for this module designed to set you and your clients or students up for success through their school year. You’ll get strategies to help your clients with anxiety or ADHD manage the unique stressors in school settings. You’ll get answers to why students with anxiety and/or ADHD are especially vulnerable to difficulties re-entering school after a prolonged absence. And, you’ll walk away with Dr. Pratt’s easy-to-implement CBT strategies and tools to help your students meet academic and social demands of school and so much more.

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