Synopses & Reviews
A wonderful resource for anyone who knows or works with teens who suffer from executive functioning disorder (EFD)including parents, teachers, counselors, or clinicians. From handling frustration to taking notes in class, this book will help teens hone the skills they need to succeed.
Do you know a teen who is disorganized, chronically late, forgetful, or impulsive? Do they struggle to get homework done, but never manage to turn it in on time? Perhaps its your son or daughter, a student you work with, or even a client. Its likely that this teen suffers from executive functioning disorder (EFD), an attention disorder marked by an inability to stay on task that is common in people with learning disabilities. If this teen has tried to manage his or her time and meet deadlines with little success, he or she may feel like giving up. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, however. You just need to show them the way.
In The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens a licensed school counselor provides an evidence-based, easy-to-use, and practical workbook written directly for a teen audience. The book is designed to provide teens with the skills needed to get organized, retain information, communicate effectively, and perform well in school and in everyday life. Based in proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the book offers activities that will help teens better understand their disorder and cope with it effectively.
With one chapter for each of the ten main areas of EFD, the book also includes tips for initiating positive action and change, improving flexibility in thinking, sustaining attention, organizing, planning, enhancing memory, managing emotions, and building self-awareness. Written in a fun, engaging format, this book is designed to motivate and inspire teens to carry out and complete tasks with ease.
Review
Lara Honos-Webb's book contains forty activities for helping teenagers with ADHD thrive and excel at home, in social situations, and at school. The ADHD Workbook for Teens is an essential guide that will help teens with ADHD have successful lives.
—Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, Ph.D., NCC, LMHC, author of 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD, Making the Grade with ADD, ADD and Your Money, and Adult ADD
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This thought-provoking workbook offers teens confidence, reassurance, motivation, and insight. Thank you, Lara Honos-Webb, for letting teenagers know that ADHD is a gift that is full of opportunities. It's a message teens with ADHD deserve.
—Robin Goldstein, Ph.D., faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and author of The New Baby Answer Book
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An excellent resource for students, educators and families. As a middle school counselor, I will definitely use this as a tool to help our students succeed in the area of executive functioning!”
Lisa Koenecke, Wisconsin School Counselor Association President
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I think it would be an invaluable resource for executive skills coaches and for teachers developing executive skills seminars for groups of students. The activities and exercises are versatile enough that they could be used with individual students or with groups of studentsand coaches and seminar leaders could easily pick and choose which executive skills to emphasize and which exercises to use.”
Peg Dawson, EdD, psychologist and author of several books on executive skills, including Smart but Scattered
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Many teens struggle with executive functioning challenges, especially those with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities, high functioning autism, or other conditions. This workbook gives these teens (and their parents) strategies to improve their executive functions, which means they can develop skills to improve their lives.”
Dr. Kenny Handelman, author of Attention Difference Disorder
Synopsis
With activities that focus on developing emotional intelligence and strengths-based skills, The ADHD Workbook for Teens helps adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) feel empowered to improve attention, calm impulsiveness, and gain facility in organizing and finishing projects. This book is written by the author of The Gift of ADHD.
Synopsis
Focus on Your Strengths and Overcome ADHD
Symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, can strike at any time-during class, when you're listening to a friend's story, while doing homework, and did we mention during class? You might find it difficult to pay attention and sit still when your impulses are constantly tempting you to do the opposite. In The ADHD Workbook for Teens, you'll learn simple skills you can use to confidently handle school, make and keep friends, and organize and finish every project you start.
This workbook helps you find out who you really are through a series of exercises and worksheets that focus on identifying your strengths and interests. Then, you'll begin using those strengths to create strategies for overcoming the ADHD-related issues you struggle with.
- Learn how to calm yourself down when you feel hyperactive or impulsive
- Develop plans for meeting the goals that matter to you most
- Get your life under control and organize your schedule
- Improve your social life by becoming a better listener and friend
Synopsis
Disorganized, chronically late, forgetful, or impulsivethese are words commonly used to describe teens with executive functioning disorder (EFD), an attention disorder marked by an inability to stay on task. In this easy-to-use, practical workbook, a licensed school counselor provides teens suffering from EFD the skills needed to get organized, retain information, communicate effectively, and perform well in school and everyday life. From handling frustration to taking notes in class, this book will help teens with EFD hone the skills they need to succeed.
About the Author
Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Walnut Creek, CA. She is author of The Gift of ADHD, The Gift of ADHD Activity Book, Listening to Depression, and more than twenty-five scholarly articles. Her work has been featured in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, and many newspapers across the country. She has appeared on national radio and television programs. Honos-Webb specializes in the treatment of ADHD, depression, and the psychology of pregnancy and motherhood and speaks regularly on these topics. She completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, and has been an assistant professor teaching graduate students. For more information about Honos-Webb and her work, please visit visionarysoul.com.
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