ADHD Best Treatment Practices Below find a review of ADHD best treatment practices which include the following: Self-esteemCognitive-Behavioral TherapyBehavioral Therapy and Parent TrainingOrganizational and Planning SkillsCoping Skills- Emotional Awareness and Self-controlSocial and Social Thinking SkillsExecutive SkillsLifestyle StrategiesSensory Integration, Proprioception, Fine Motor InterventionComorbid Anxiety, Depression, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, CAPDNew FDA approved deviceVideo Games Self-esteem ADHD Best Treatment […]
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Metacognition for self-esteem, self-regulation, academic success
Metacognition for self-esteem, self-regulation, academic success Did you know metacognition instruction has been identified and validated as a key method for improving self-esteem, self-regulation, academic success, and test scores? I have this little book called Mr. Daydream I sometimes read to children who seem to daydream in school and miss instruction. It’s pretty short and […]
Autism, Engineers: Thinking in Pictures or Words?
Coronavirus Kid Care Kit detailing how to reassure kids in crisis by age group, structuring their day, menu of offline at-home activities, and managing technology use. Children with special needs and behavior problems stuck at home without structure can push their parents to the edge. Send them this free resource. Thinking in pictures vs. thinking […]
Best Way to Motivate Autistic ADHD Child
What is the best way to motivate an Autistic ADHD Child? From the owner of the Autism Clinic and Family Counseling Center. Find out how inconsistency is the most powerful motivator in behavior management techniques. Being consistent is boring. People respond the most often and intensely when they never know when they will get rewarded, […]
Have enough strategies for kids who struggle? ADHD, Autism, Anger, Anxiety, Giftedness
Silly question, right? How can you ever have enough to stop the madness when it comes to the ways adults often interact with children who have differences? We can make it better. We can train adults in more loving and effective methods, and we can teach children emotional coping skills, social skills, and better ways […]
Harness the power of stories to help people heal and get unstuck
Ever wonder why people get “stuck?” Is it fear of change? Staying in the comfort zone of what you have gotten used to, even if it’s not really what you want and dream of? Listening to the internal critic and pessimism, resigning yourself to helplessness, in effect giving away your power to change? Or maybe […]
Autism Aspergers Syndrome PDD-NOS book excerpt
Autism/Asperger: Understanding from the Inside Out Autism Aspergers Syndrome PDD-NOS Book I read some years ago in my NASP(National Association of School Psychologists http://www.nasponline.org/resources/ ) handbook that “autism is a lifelong disease. “ I think this is misleading from two standpoints. First, it’s not a disease. It doesn’t get worse as time goes on, it […]
Solution Focused Counseling Techniques
Solution Focus There’s a problem inherent in counseling people about their problems. The risk is that we are modeling and training to notice and focus on failures and problems. As soon as one gets better another is chosen or created. One way to overcome this risk is to be solution focused. In solution focused brief […]
Counseling IEP Goals Menu
Related Service Counseling and Counseling IEP Goals Menu (scroll down the page for the related service counseling IEP goals menu) Update: Telemedicine virtual online counseling now available here: https://www.bradmasoncounselor.com/ Coronavirus Kid Care Kit detailing how to reassure kids in crisis by age group, structuring their day, menu of offline at-home activities, and managing technology use. […]
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Mind and Mood Control
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Thinking Errors Practice Your thoughts are so powerful they create your reality. Where do your feelings come from? What happens, or how you think about what happens? For example, it could start raining, and I could think, “Oh no- this is going to ruin everything, I’m supposed to go fishing!” I could be […]