THE SCIENCE ADHD COACHING
What is it? Does it work?
An ADHD life coach
is trained to help adults and children with ADHD to understand how ADHD affects them and to support them in developing solutions to manage it. An ADHD coach uses techniques like mindful listening and CBT techniques to help clients.
What are the goals?
To help you understand how ADHD affects you
To change your behaviour and habits
To develop accountability with yourself
To build strategies to help you with your functioning
To help change your mindset/ or blockers
To identify your future goals
To empower you to develop solutions
To work with you to build resilience
To improve your executive functioning skills
To focus and build on your strengths
Does it work?
Research has been conducted on college students who received ADHD coaching. The results showed that coaching supports improved ADHD symptoms and executive functioning.
Emerging studies have shown that ADHD coaching helps improve functioning in people across the age span. There were improvements in executive functioning but also improvements in self-esteem and well-being.
Interaction with ADHD medication
Taking medication is an individual choice. The good thing is that ADHD coaching can be used as a complementary intervention for people taking medication or not.
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