You Can Do This: Motivating Kids Who are Out-of-the-Box Thinkers

Recorded Webinar
Instructor: Sharon Saline, Psy.D. 
CEs: 1.5. 
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Social workers and other social service providers.
Course Delivery Method and Format: Recorded webinar, self study. All courses are hosted on SmithOnline. Login information will be emailed immediately after registration to the email address entered during registration.
System Requirements: Attendees will need access to a computer with internet and the capability to play recorded videos.

Date of original webinar: June 4, 2020

Many professionals who work with children or teens with ADHD, ASD or other learning disabilities, and parents who live with them, feel frustrated and thwarted in their efforts to teach responsibility, motivation and follow through. Parents want to make sure that their child has the executive functioning skills they need to succeed in life, but they can’t seem to work together towards a common  goal.

Sharon Saline, veteran psychologist and author of What your ADHD child wishes you knew: Working together to empower kids for success in school and life and The ADHD solution card deck believes that successfully motivating teens who are out-of-the-box thinkers relies on a strength-based, collaborative approach. When they are included in creating solutions to daily challenges, their buy-in, along with their motivation, increases. Saline will show participants how to create and use strategies to teach all-important executive functioning skills that increase personal accountability and foster independence.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the executive functioning skills that affect motivation.
2. Define strategies for improving time management and initiation. 
3. Describe how to teach goal-directed persistence, time management and organizational skills that stick.
4. Explain how to create meaningful, collaborative incentives.
5. Describe how to create effective routines that help kids make positive long and short-term choices about goals.

Instructor Biography:

Sharon Saline, Psy.D., clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life, specializes in how ADHD, learning disabilities and mental health issues affect children, teens, young adults and families. Her unique perspective, namely growing up in a household with a sibling who wrestled with untreated ADHD, combined with decades of clinical experience, assists her in guiding families as they navigate the confusing maze of information, emotions, stress and conflict related to ADHD. She helps them appreciate the positive aspect of living with ADHD and create successful dialogues, interventions and connections. Saline has also worked extensively with schools on mental health issues in the classroom, interpreting psychological evaluations and improving teacher/parent communication. As an internationally sought-after lecturer and workshop facilitator known for combining her expertise in psychology with a background in theater, she addresses a variety of topics such as understanding ADHD and executive functioning, new tools for managing anxiety, making sense of the teen brain and working with different kinds of learners. Saline is a regular columnist for ADDitudemag.com and Psychologytoday.com.

She is a part-time lecturer in the Professional Education program at Smith School for Social Work. A magna cum laude graduate of Brown University, she received her master’s degree in psychology from New College of California and her doctorate in psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant University.