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Get It Done: How to Help Clients with ADHD (& Others) Improve Productivity

Friday, June 13th, 2025   10:00 AM EDT -1:00 PM EDT
Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA
$59.99 Cost For Member: $39.99

One of the biggest complaints from (and about) adults with ADHD is their struggles with productivity. This has significant repercussions in academic, professional, personal, and interpersonal functioning. Better tools and systems, like online calendars with reminders, can be helpful, but these clients often struggle to use them consistently, frustrating themselves, their family, and their therapist. What gets in the way between the intention and the action?

Dr. Tuckman returns to share a strategy-loaded presentation to help clients with ADHD address the various mental barriers to productivity, such as perfectionism, deadline stress, overwhelm, ambiguity, fake productivity, and rationalization. He will also discuss how to help clients decide how productive they really need to be and how to handle other people’s expectations and disappointments. While focused on working with clients with ADHD, much of this will be beneficial with other clients in your caseload.

About the Presenter

Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA is a psychologist, international presenter, author, and ADHD thought leader. He has given more than 750 presentations and podcast interviews and routinely earns excellent reviews for his ability to make complicated information understandable and useful. He is the author of five books, including his newest, The ADHD Productivity Manual. He is in private practice in West Chester, PA.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Apply active strategies to help clients with ADHD be more productive
  2. Identify how various mental processes interfere with productivity for clients with ADHD
  3. Explain how clients with ADHD can create a healthy balance between meeting others’ expectations and asserting their own desires

Agenda:
  1. ADHD Makes Productivity Harder (30 minutes)
    1. Neurology drives psychology
    2. Social implications
    3. Goals of treatment
  2. Should Your Client Take Medication? (15 minutes)
    1. Help your clients think through their feelings about medication
  3. A Productive Mindset (75 minutes)
    1. The lies we tell ourselves
    2. Just bite the bullet on things you hate
    3. No, that’s fake productivity
    4. The love and hate of deadlines
    5. How perfect does this need to be?
    6. Overwhelm: Break down big tasks
    7. Ambiguity: What am I doing here?
  4. Managing the Social Repercussions (30 minutes)
    1. How productive do you really need to be?
    2. Disappoint & disagree with grace
  5. Discussion & Q&A (30 minutes)

This workshop offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: intermediate
Level of Clinician: intermediate
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
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Full Refund until 48 hours before scheduled date.
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*exclusions apply for reasonable need and cause.