People with ADHD are frequently thought of as impulsive people who have difficulty keeping attention, whereas, more often than not ADHD is really a disorder involving difficulty changing attention.  This often looks like difficulty with prioritizing tasks and difficulty keeping commitments. Here at Brooklyn Minds we recognizing that medication helps but so is the dosage and psychotherapy can often help people get the rest of the way.

Clinical Testing:

• ​The Conner's Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS) 
• Brooklyn Minds Clinical Testing

​Helpful Links:

• ADDA: Attention Deficit Disorder Association

Videos: 

• Ted Talk: Wait but why website

Support groups:

• Virtual Adult Support Group

    
Podcast:

• NPR: How to Be a Productive Procrastinator

Literature:

• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential by Peg Dawson & Richard Guare
• Taking Charge of Adult ADHD by Russell A. Barkley 
• Taking Charge of ADHD, Third Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents by Russell A. Barkley
• ​Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach (Lifetools: Books for the General Public) by Vincent J. Monastra 
• Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder by Edward M. Hallowell M.D. & John J. Ratey M.D. 

Literature for Parents on Behaviorism: 

• Don’t Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor
• The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child by Alan E. Kazdin