Seminar Detail
Smart But Scattered: Executive Dysfunction at Home and at School
- Where:
- TOWSON, MD
- When:
- Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Course Description:
Children who have deficient executive skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments and forget to hand in homework. They make careless mistakes, put off work until the last minute and have no sense of time urgency. Workspaces are disorganized and teachers often refer to their backpacks or lockers as “black holes.” Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Dr. Guare, co-author of the best-selling books, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, 2nd Ed. (Guilford, 2010) and Smart But Scattered (Guilford, 2009), uses case examples along with interactive discussion to demonstrate how the executive skills manifest in daily home and school activities. Learn how to assess these skills and take home evidence-based strategies to help children and adolescents overcome executive skills weaknesses.
Leave this seminar with a set of tools that includes strategies for task/environmental modifications, skill development through cognitive/behavioral techniques and creation of incentive systems. You will be able to give teachers and parents a means for developing and improving the following:
Children who have deficient executive skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments and forget to hand in homework. They make careless mistakes, put off work until the last minute and have no sense of time urgency. Workspaces are disorganized and teachers often refer to their backpacks or lockers as “black holes.” Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties.
Dr. Guare, co-author of the best-selling books, Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, 2nd Ed. (Guilford, 2010) and Smart But Scattered (Guilford, 2009), uses case examples along with interactive discussion to demonstrate how the executive skills manifest in daily home and school activities. Learn how to assess these skills and take home evidence-based strategies to help children and adolescents overcome executive skills weaknesses.
Leave this seminar with a set of tools that includes strategies for task/environmental modifications, skill development through cognitive/behavioral techniques and creation of incentive systems. You will be able to give teachers and parents a means for developing and improving the following:
- organization
- time management
- impulse control
- goal-directed persistence
- executive skills critical for independent functioning
Objectives:
- Describe the relationship between the executive skills and brain development/function.
- Explain how executive skills emerge throughout childhood and adolescence.
- Summarize assessment tools used to identify executive dysfunction.
- Identify how executive skills impact performance and daily living at home and school.
- Utilize strategies to modify the environment to reduce the impact of weak executive skills.
- Develop tools that improve specific executive skill deficits in the context of home or school performance expectations.
- Design intervention strategies tailored to the needs of individual children and adolescents.
RICHARD GUARE, PHD, D-BCBA
Richard Guare, Ph.D., D-BCBA, is a clinical neuropsychologist, board-certified behavior analyst and co-author of the best-selling books on executive dysfunction, Executive Skills in Children & Adolescents, 2nd Edition (Guilford, 2010) and Smart but Scattered (Guilford, 2009). He is also the co-author of Coaching the ADHD Adolescent and has published articles and presented at national conferences in the areas of ADHD, Acquired Brain Injury and Executive Dysfunction.
Dr. Guare is the Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and his expertise includes diagnosis and intervention for children and adults with ADHD, LD, Acquired Brain Injury and Autism Spectrum Disorders. He consults with schools, agencies and families and provides direct treatment with children and adults.
Dr. Guare earned his Ph.D in Child Clinical and School Psychology from the University of Virginia and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He has worked in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, community mental health centers and private and public schools.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Richard Guare is the director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders. He is an author for Guilford Press publishers and receives royalties. He is an author for Amacom publishers and receives royalties. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-Financial: Dr. Richard Guare has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
Dr. Guare is the Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and his expertise includes diagnosis and intervention for children and adults with ADHD, LD, Acquired Brain Injury and Autism Spectrum Disorders. He consults with schools, agencies and families and provides direct treatment with children and adults.
Dr. Guare earned his Ph.D in Child Clinical and School Psychology from the University of Virginia and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He has worked in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, community mental health centers and private and public schools.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Richard Guare is the director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders. He is an author for Guilford Press publishers and receives royalties. He is an author for Amacom publishers and receives royalties. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-Financial: Dr. Richard Guare has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, or questions on home study credit availability, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.
The planning committee and staff who controlled the content of this activity have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. For speaker disclosures, please see speaker bios.
PESI, Inc. offers continuing education programs and products under the brand names PESI, PESI Healthcare, PESI Kids, PESI Rehab and Psychotherapy Networker.
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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI Rehab, P.O. Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call (800) 844-8260.
ADA Needs
We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at (800) 844-8260.
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