Download or read book Executive Functioning Workbook for Adults written by Blythe Grossberg PsyD and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take charge of your future with sharper executive functioning skills Executive functioning is the ability to get organized, plan ahead, and stay focused. If your executive functioning skills could use a boost, this workbook is the perfect place to start! No matter your job or lifestyle, the simple strategies inside will help you feel more in control so you can thrive. Get started right away—Find in-depth information about how executive functioning works, along with self-assessments, advice for breaking bad habits, worksheets to keep you on track, and more. Take it one step at a time—This book breaks down each aspect of executive function and offers step-by-step guidance that's easy to understand and stick with for long-term results. Target nine essential skills—Explore exercises designed to improve: attention and focus, organization, task initiation, planning and prioritization, self-monitoring, working memory, flexible thinking, emotional control, and impulse control. Get the tools you need to feel more productive and achieve your goals with the Executive Functioning Workbook for Adults.
Download or read book Adult Executive Functioning Workbook written by Melissa Mullin and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many adults struggle with daily tasks that affect their ability to plan, start, and finish work. This often means they're lacking the executive functioning skills needed to be effective in their family and work lives. Research shows these brain-based skills can be taught. The Adult Executive Functioning program guides you to understand what keeps you from reaching your goals and teaches you to learn how to identify your goals and challenges and boost your productivity. -Skills covered this workbook include:-Self-assessment in Executive Functioning skills.-Setting goals. -Setting and maintaining an organized workspace.-Using a planner to track daily, weekly, and long-term projects. -Accurately estimating how long tasks will take.-Scheduling time for working towards your goals.-Breaking down long-term projects into daily tasks.-Active reading and study skills.-Taking useful notes. -Exam preparation and exam-taking strategies.-Tracking progress and setting new goals.
Download or read book Executive Functioning Workbook for Adults written by Blythe Grossberg and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take charge of your future with sharper executive functioning skills Executive functioning is the ability to get organized, plan ahead, and stay focused. If your executive functioning skills could use a boost, this workbook is the perfect place to start! No matter your job or lifestyle, the simple strategies inside will help you feel more in control so you can thrive. Get started right away—Find in-depth information about how executive functioning works, along with self-assessments, advice for breaking bad habits, worksheets to keep you on track, and more. Take it one step at a time—This book breaks down each aspect of executive function and offers step-by-step guidance that's easy to understand and stick with for long-term results. Target nine essential skills—Explore exercises designed to improve: attention and focus, organization, task initiation, planning and prioritization, self-monitoring, working memory, flexible thinking, emotional control, and impulse control. Get the tools you need to feel more productive and achieve your goals with the Executive Functioning Workbook for Adults.
Download or read book Understand Your Brain Get More Done written by Ari Tuckman and published by Specialty Press/A.D.D. Warehouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers solutions for parents and teachers such as how to help students with short attention spans and how to reduce disruptive behavior. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Executive Functions written by Russell A. Barkley and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive theory of executive functioning (EF) with important clinical implications. Synthesizing cutting-edge neuropsychological and evolutionary research, Russell A. Barkley presents a model of EF that is rooted in meaningful activities of daily life. He describes how abilities such as emotion regulation, self-motivation, planning, and working memory enable people to pursue both personal and collective goals that are critical to survival. Key stages of EF development are identified and the far-reaching individual and social costs of EF deficits detailed. Barkley explains specific ways that his model may support much-needed advances in assessment and treatment. See also Barkley's empirically based, ecologically valid assessment tools: Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale (BDEFS for Adults) and Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale--Children and Adolescents (BDEFS-CA).
Download or read book Executive Function Difficulties in Adults written by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Executive Functioning Workbook written by Melissa Mullin Ph D and published by K&m Center. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many students struggle with organization, planning, completing homework, and creating an effective study routine. School seems more challenging for them than their peers. These children may be labeled as disorganized, absent-minded, scattered, or forgetful by teachers, when in reality the issue is underdeveloped executive function - a skill, like any other, that can be taught! This EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING WORKBOOK increases student's ability to plan, start, and finish work independently. It identifies student's aims and challenges, builds thinking skills, and provides tools to help build organizational strategies. Judging time accurately Building "Working Memory" Breaking down complex projects into manageable, orderly tasks Correctly estimating how long tasks will take Starting, stopping, and changing activities This Executive Functioning Workbook is the first subject-matter book geared toward the STUDENT - providing worksheets and advice for students to develop and improve their Executive Functioning skills. The step-by-step worksheets and checklists designed by educational experts Melissa Mullin Ph.D. and Karen Fried PsyD MFT are the results of over 20 years of helping students succeed in school. Parenting and teaching solutions utilize student's strengths and weaknesses help build organization and establish a schedule that works. The Executive Functioning Workbook provides easy to follow, hands-on guidance and support to help students organize, plan, and follow through on tasks.
Download or read book More Attention Less Deficit written by Ari Tuckman and published by Specialty Press/A.D.D. Warehouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook designed for adults with ADHD reviews the history of the disorder and its symptoms, and provides evidence-based treatments.
Download or read book The Dyslexia Workbook for Adults written by Dr. Gavin Reid and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your skills and discover the strengths of your dyslexia—strategies and exercises for adults Dyslexia is a continuous, lifelong journey—one that asks you to adapt and grow every day. The Dyslexia Workbook for Adults offers practical tools, techniques, and activities to help you improve your literacy skills, boost your self-esteem, and use your dyslexia as an advantage. Gain a sense of empowerment and a greater appreciation for the positive aspects of dyslexia with exercises designed to develop the strengths unique to dyslexic patterns of thinking. Explore specific strategies for targeting problems that adults with dyslexia experience with spelling, reading, writing, memorization, organization, and other executive functioning skills. You'll come to see your dyslexia as a gift and an important part of you. The Dyslexia Workbook for Adults includes: Intro to dyslexia—Learn more about dyslexia and how it impacts adults, and take an assessment of your own experience with the characteristics of dyslexia. Coping strategies—Build resilience to dyslexia-specific stressors in your personal life and the workplace with actionable coping techniques. Dyslexia in action—Read real-life scenarios that depict people with dyslexia using a variety of strategies and employing their strengths to overcome challenges and thrive. Build greater confidence and stronger literacy skills with evidence-based tools and exercises for adults with dyslexia.
Download or read book Thriving with Adult ADHD written by Phil Boissiere and published by Althea Press. This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus, organization, stress management, and more--these qualities are gained and improved by strengthening executive functioning and core skills. Thriving with Adult ADHD offers a toolbox of practical, evidence-based exercises to build this mental skill set and take control of ADHD.From managing common distractions at work to regulating emotions with family and friends, these proven-effective strategies target symptoms that impact your home, work, and personal life. Applied through a series of exercises and assessments, Thriving with Adult ADHD is an actionable, results-oriented approach to achieving real, sustainable life changes.--
Download or read book Executive Functioning Workbook for Kids written by Sharon Grand and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help kids grow their executive functioning skills with activities for ages 6 to 9 Executive functioning is the name for the skills we use to pay attention, complete tasks, and remember important things. But that's a lot for a brain to do every day--especially for kids. The Executive Functioning Workbook for Kids helps them train their brain to improve their memory, flexible thinking, and self-control. Kids will explore 40 hands-on activities to help them conquer executive functioning skills at home, at school, and out in the world. Just for kids--This book is made especially for kids to work on independently so they can see their skills develop and feel accomplished. Insightful activities--Kids will discover exercises that inspire them to work hard and appreciate the strengths and talents they already have. Tools for parents--Grown-ups can get involved, too, with a section of tips and activities that explain how kids learn and how adults can help them succeed. Empower kids to tackle any challenge with the skills they'll learn in the Executive Functioning Workbook for Kids.
Download or read book Seeing My Time Course Notes written by Marydee Sklar and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The workbook for teaching the Sklar Process™ - a hands on, multisensory program that develops the metacognition required to change time management and organization behavior. Companion book is: Seeing My Time–Instructor's Manual by the same author.
Download or read book Smart But Scattered Teens written by Richard Guare and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-12-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses.
Download or read book Parent Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD written by Margaret H. Sibley and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly manual presents an innovative, tested approach to helping teens overcome the frustrating organizational and motivation problems associated with executive function deficits and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The Supporting Teens' Autonomy Daily (STAND) approach uses motivational interviewing (MI) to engage teens and their parents in building key compensatory skills in organization, time management, and planning. Parent training components ease family conflict and equip parents to support kids' independence. Ready-to-use worksheets and rating scales are provided; the book has a large-size format for easy photocopying. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print all 45 reproducible tools.
Download or read book Promoting Executive Function in the Classroom written by Lynn Meltzer and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible and practical, this book helps teachers incorporate executive function processes - such as planning, organizing, prioritizing, and self-checking - into the classroom curriculum. Chapters provide effective strategies for optimizing what Ka "12 students learn by improving how they learn. Noted authority Lynn Meltzer and her research associates present a wealth of easy-to-implement assessment tools, teaching techniques and activities, and planning aids. Featuring numerous whole-class ideas and suggestions, the book also covers the nuts and bolts of differentiating instruction for students with learning or attention difficulties. Case examples illustrate individualized teaching strategies and classroom accommodations. Fifteen reproducibles are included; the large-size format facilitates photocopying and day-to-day reference. This book will be invaluable to classroom teachers and special educators in grades K-12, teacher educators, school psychologists, and neuropsychologists.
Download or read book Late Lost and Unprepared written by Joyce Cooper-Kahn and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful. Children with weak executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework, but forget to turn it in, wait until the last minute to start a project, lose things, or have a room that looks like a dump! The good news is that parents can do a lot to support and train their children to manage these frustrating and stressful weaknesses. Late, Lost, and Unprepared is a must-have book for parents of children from primary school through high school who struggle with: Impulse Control; Cognitive Flexibility; Initiation; Working Memory; Planning & Organizing; Self-monitoring. Written by clinical psychologists, Late, Lost, and Unprepared emphasizes the need for a two-pronged approach to intervention: 1) helping the child to manage demands in the short run, and 2) building independent skills for long-term self-management. Full of encouragement and practical strategies, the book's organization, short chapters with overviews, summaries, case studies, tips, and definitions, makes it easy to grasp concepts quickly and get started. Part I, What You Need to Know, provides information about: what executive functions are and how weaknesses in these skills affect development; the impact of weak executive function on children's emotional lives, and their familes; how professionals assess executive function problems; and associated conditions. Part II discusses What You Can Do About It including how to change behaviour and set reasonable expectations, and offers specific intervention strategies for children of different ages, varying needs, and profiles.
Download or read book The Adult Speech Therapy Workbook written by Chung Hwa Brewer and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ADULT SPEECH THERAPY WORKBOOK is your go-to resource for handouts and worksheets. It was designed for speech therapists new to adult speech therapy and covers the most common diagnoses and disorders across all adult speech therapy settings, from hospitals, to skilled nursing facilities, to home health. This workbook is packed with over 580 pages of practical, evidenced-based treatment material.
