Summary
This book offers practical, evidence-based guidance for supporting adults with ADHD, integrating well-being and neuro-affirming lenses. It synthesizes theoretical frameworks, coaching, psychological science, positive psychology, and research to provide practitioners with tools for optimal client support. The central argument is that adults with ADHD can be guided to cultivate self-determined choices, take effective action, develop hope, resilience, and agency, and achieve personal growth and overall well-being through these combined approaches.
The book details how to implement a range of complementary strategies for adults with ADHD. Readers will gain insight into how to help clients improve their capacity for self-determination, enhance their resilience and hope, and foster both personal development and general flourishing. This guide aims to equip therapists, coaches, and other professionals with clear, actionable, and theoretically sound methods.
Key concepts
- False growth mindset — A concept related to the widespread teaching of growth mindset, noting its potential for misinterpretation or ineffective application.
- Neuro-affirming lenses — An approach that validates and supports neurodevelopmental differences, specifically in adults with ADHD.
- Self-determined choices — The capacity of individuals to make choices that align with their own values and goals, a key area of development for clients with ADHD.
- Agency — An individual's ability to act independently and make their own free choices, which this book aims to develop in adults with ADHD.
- Flourishing — A state of optimal well-being and personal growth, presented as an achievable outcome for adults with ADHD through specific interventions.
From the book
Description: Rooted in both well-being and neuro-affirming lenses, this timely, essential text offers a comprehensive guide to supporting adults with ADHD. The book compiles and synthesizes theoretical frameworks, cutting-edge, evidence-based coaching and psychological science, positive psychology, and research findings, as well as numerous examples, with their application to adults who have ADHD. It offers an array of practical, theoretically sound, evidence-supported approaches practitioners can easily implement as a guide to providing optimal support for adult clients with ADHD. Practitioners will find clear and useful direction for numerous, complementary approaches to helping clients with ADHD: (1) cultivate the ability to make self-determined choices and take more effective action;…
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Popular questions readers ask
- How would you explain the core philosophy of "Flourishing with Adult ADHD," particularly the significance of a "neuro-affirming lens" and "positive psychology," to a practitioner who only views ADHD as a deficit or disorder?
- The text mentions "false growth mindset." How might a client with ADHD, inadvertently adopting a "false growth mindset," sabotage their ability to achieve the book's stated goals of "developing hope, resilience, agency, and capacity"?
- Why is the book's synthesis of "theoretical frameworks, cutting-edge, evidence-based coaching and psychological science, positive psychology, and research findings" particularly crucial for effectively supporting adults with ADHD, as opposed to a more singular therapeutic approach?
- If a practitioner were to primarily focus on teaching "growth mindset" without understanding the nuances of a "false growth mindset," what potential negative outcomes could arise for an adult client with ADHD seeking to "make self-determined choices and take more effective action"?
- The book aims to guide practitioners in helping clients "achieve both personal growth and overall well-being" for "flourishing." Explain how the concepts of "agency" and "resilience," as encouraged by this text, specifically contribute to an adult with ADHD moving beyond mere symptom management toward genuine flourishing.