Parent & Community Workshops

Motivating the Unmotivated Student with ADHD

Does your tween or teen seem to lack all motivation?

Learn about strategies for developing enduring time-management skills, organizational skills, and goal-directed persistence

Do they need aggressive reminders to begin tasks — especially those they’ve put off for as long as possible? Is it almost always a struggle to finish?

  • Many adolescents with ADHD stall out when trying to start and/or complete assignments and tasks, especially when they are no fun, boring, or challenging. ADHD-related procrastination and disorganization, combined with perfectionism and low self-esteem, can hamper their ability to complete work or remember to turn in what they have accomplished. Successfully motivating and supporting these students means following a strength-based, collaborative approach that synthesizes cognitive behavioral interventions with practical routines and mindful awareness.

In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline, award-winning author, international speaker and consultant, explores how to motivate teens with ADHD and offers effective strategies for offering effective support while helping them build life-long skills.You will learn:

  • How to identify the executive functioning skills that affect motivation
  • About strategies for developing enduring time-management skills, organizational skills, and goal-directed persistence
  • About effective, collaborative routines with meaningful incentives to reduce procrastination and perfectionism
  • How to reduce overwhelm and anxiety by increasing confidence and resilience
  • How to determine appropriate levels of parent participation in kids’ lives
  • How to help tweens and teens with ADHD develop the accountability and autonomy that fosters success in school and in life
  • Dr. Sharon Saline , Speaker

    Sharon Saline, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 30 years’ experience. She is a top expert on ADHD, anxiety, learning differences and mental health challenges and their impact on school and family dynamics.

    Dr. Saline’s approach comes from a unique perspective as a sibling of a child who wrestled with untreated ADHD. Combined with decades of academic excellence and clinical experience, her perspective assists her in guiding families as they navigate from the confusing maze of diagnoses and conflict to successful interventions and connections.

    A magna cum laude graduate of Brown University, Dr. Saline received her master’s degree in psychology from New College of California. She received her doctorate in psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant University.

    Dr. Saline lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as understanding ADHD, executive functioning, anxiety, different kinds of learners and the teen brain. Dr. Saline is a regular contributor to ADDitudemag.com and PsychologyToday.com, a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. Learn more at www.drsharonsaline.com.

Sharon’s blend of compassion, humor, and depth of knowledge–struck just the right balance and kept the audience deeply engaged. She is a terrific speaker. — Website Testimonial