Talk with Dr. Sharon Saline

Dr. Saline will give a talk to the North Shore CHADD Support group. Topic TBA.

Dates: June 3, 2020, 7:00 to 8:30pm.

For more information, go to http://www.nsadhd.org/ or please contact me at sharon@drsharonsaline.com or (413) 586-8688.

When Worrying Takes Over: Helping Kids with ADHD
Overcome Anxiety and Build Resiliency

Part of the American Family Therapy Academy’s 2020 Conference

Our 42nd Annual Meeting and Open Conference, Politics & Systems: Navigating Complex Relational and Global Issues, offers salient topics and invites critical dialogues that reflect our society’s current socio-political climate. As a professional organization that is committed to social justice, it is time we focus on repairing relational and global ruptures and enhancing our practices of relational activism to support families and communities who must navigate the brutal implications and politics that influence our relationships.

Conference dates: June 24-27, 2020.

Dr. Saline’s talk, date and time TBA.

For more information, please go to https://afta.org/conferences-2020/ or contact me at sharon@drsharonsaline.com or (413) 586-8688.

Copies of Dr. Saline’s will be available for purchase.

Register at https://afta.org/afta-annual-meeting-registration-2020/

As school winds down and warm weather arrives, many families are scrambling to navigate the summer without camps and other planned activities. Once school ends, most kids will have hours of unstructured time with no responsibilities while many parents continue to work from home or return to their jobs in person. Plus, having a child with ADHD comes with additional obstacles. How can you and your family make this transition smoothly and look forward to a sane, stress-free summer? How can you get some much-needed recuperation time, too?

In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline offers practical, easy tools for setting up a successful summer. You’ll learn how to create effective summer routines, cope with anxiety about COVID, manage screen time, and arrange safe peer interactions. Submit your question by emailing customerservice@additudemag.com to ask questions about the following:

• How to set up smart daily routines and long-term plans
• How to deal with mental health issues related to COVID-19 (such as feelings of anxiety, hopelessness, and anger)
• How to go with the flow in a world without answers
• How limit screen time without arguments
• How to foster social contact that’s safe and appropriate
• How to solve childcare challenges
• How to take care of ourselves and what self-care really looks like

Register HERE: https://goto.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1327005&tp_key=4ba1d26c53

Parenting Hotspots Panel

Part of the Montclair Literary Festival

Dates: September 12, 2020

For more information, please contact me at sharon@drsharonsaline.com or (413) 586-8688.

Copies of Dr. Saline’s will be available for purchase.

This event is FREE!

Valley ADHD Support Group

at Northampton Pediatrics

Dates: September 14, 2020, 7:00 to 9:00pm

For more information, please contact me at sharon@drsharonsaline.com or (413) 586-8688.

Learning Differences Conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

When worrying takes over: Helping kids with ADHD overcome anxiety and build resiliency

Living in a world that’s increasingly unpredictable, today’s kids are more anxious than ever before. For kids with ADHD, worry and fear can increase their agitation, distractedness and impulsivity and make things seem worse than they are. Dr. Saline, author of What your ADHD child wishes you knew: Working together to empower kids in school and life, discusses how anxiety works and what parents, coaches and clinicians can do to help kids reduce their worries. After reviewing the physiology and psychology of anxiety, she will show you how to help kids with ADHD change their relationship to worry and avoid the pitfalls of negative thinking. Instead of reassurance and rationalization, you will learn techniques for separating the person from the anxiety, talking to the worry itself and creating effective responses to ‘what ifs’. Dr. Saline shares excerpts from interviews with kids with ADHD about issues such as insomnia, social concerns and avoidance to give you unusual insight into their perspectives. She offers tools for teaching them how to realistically evaluate situations, tolerate uncertainty and calm down. When young people with ADHD gain these skills, they bounce back confidently with more independence and much less worry.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how anxiety works in the brain and body and its relationship to executive functioning skills

2. Identify and reduce patterns of negative thinking

3. Develop the ability to externalize anxiety and reduce its influence

4. Learn practical tools for dealing with kids’ specific worries

5. Identify and develop areas of resiliency

Dates: Dr. Saline’s talk is on March 20, 2020.

For more information and tickets, please go to https://www.researchild.org/events/35th-annual-learning-differences-conference or contact me at sharon@drsharonsaline.com or (413) 586-8688.

Copies of Dr. Saline’s will be available for purchase.

Enrollment is limited.

Building better brains: How improving executive
functioning skills fosters social, emotional and academic success

at the Bridge Training Institute

Would you like practical tools to help kids harness their natural potential, reduce stress and get things done with less arguing and more cooperation? Whether it’s academics, social challenges, mental health issues or technology, many children and teens struggle with feeling overwhelmed and can’t seem to keep up, especially those young people with ADHD, high-functioning ASD or learning disabilities. In this dynamic and interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to navigate their complex mix of biology, behavior and emotion and strengthen essential executive functioning skills to improve both home and school experiences.
With current research on the developing brain and real-life case examples, Dr.
Saline shows you why executive functioning skills are critical to learning and
development and how stress and anxiety negatively impact them. Innovative tools to improve focus, organization, planning and motivation will also be covered. Throughout the workshop, exercises are designed to improve participants’ understanding of living with learning differences, how to assist kids and their families with these challenges and opportunities to brainstorm about your specific clinical and/or classroom issues.
By focusing on a strength-based, positive psychology approach and including
kids’ voices in problem-solving, participants will learn how to create effective
interventions that go beyond medication and crisis management. You will leave this workshop with tangible strategies for identifying and nurturing cognitive strengths in young people to help them overcome daily challenges and improve their home and school experiences.

Dates: March 5, 2021

For more information, please contact me at sharon@drsharonsaline.com or (413) 586-8688.

Copies of Dr. Saline’s will be available for purchase.

Enrollment is limited.