Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

Narrowed down

3 practices

Getting assessed and diagnosed Both of us together Under stress Clear all

How long you have

A minute 1 Five minutes 1 Twenty minutes 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 3 Me 1

Where you are right now

Coping, mostly 2 Struggling right now 1

On your own, or with someone · Both of us together

Both of us together 3 Involves someone else 2 On my own 2

Theme · Getting assessed and diagnosed

When anger turns to harm 4 Feelings and focus 3 Shame 3 Getting assessed and diagnosed 3 When everything feels flat 2 Emotions as signals 1 Systems for daily life 1 Being seen and judged 1 The cost of avoiding 1 The fear underneath anger 1 Grounding and settling 1 Practising under provocation 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1

Approach

ADHD skills 2 Core 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 34 Coming and going 4 Under stress 3

When someone says their heart races on their medication, ask whether it ever did before they started. It is the cheapest question you have and it usually sorts the answer out.

Go looking for the old settings: waiting to be called on in class, standing outside a room before a difficult conversation, three in the morning with…

A minuteGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 2:32

Expect more anxiety, low mood, drinking and drug use in the young people coming through now. And expect the boys to say less about it, so go looking for irritability, trouble and substances instead of waiting to be told.

Ask parents what they are seeing rather than only what they have been told, and ask the young person directly and privately. Screening that rests on…

Five minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedCoreQur’an 21:83

Ask for the most frightening moment of their life, then the next one down, then the next, until there is a scale running from one to a hundred. You get the ladder you needed, and they get something they did not expect: fear comes in sizes.

Do it slowly and write it in their words rather than yours. Most people arrive believing anxiety is one solid block that either has hold of them or…

Twenty minutesGetting assessed and diagnosedADHD skillsQur’an 21:83

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