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/

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.