How can you help your teenager navigate the career world, and handle employment if Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a potential hindrance? In this article, I will share practical tips to support teens with ADHD embarking on their careers.
Careers in the Senior Schooling Years & Beyond – where do I start?
Helpful tips for teenagers, tertiary students and early career starters with Claire Pech, Careers Advisor
In this talk Claire will be addressing:
– how to start off with career planning at school?
– how to know whether to study after you leave school, or leave school early or go to University or TAFE?
– will ADHD hold you back? or change this thinking?
– will ADHD cause challenges once you are working?
– will ADHD cause benefits once you are working?
– how and who can you work with on this journey?
Claire Pech is a Careers Advisor working in Sydney who has worked in the education sphere for over 20 years. She has a passion for helping students manage the uncertain terrain of navigating their own career. She also has a personal and professional interest in helping others with ADHD as quite often, they may need extra or specific support.
She specialises in:
Subject selection and post-school alignment
Course navigation and Institution choice
University, Early Offer and Scholarship Applications
Resume guidance and tailoring for job applications
Interview technique, planning and preparation
For more information please go to https://clairepechcareers.com/.
This talk will be highly relevant to ADHD teenagers in Years 10, 11 and 12, tertiary students, early workers and their parents/carers.
Professionals attending will receive a Certificate of Attendance to help them keep track of their professional development.
I invite you to join me in delving into this most important topic.
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I look forward to seeing you there – Vivian
It’s hard to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Incorrectly known as attention deficit disorder (ADD), ADHD is partly an attention disorder that affects people in different ways. Some adults with ADHD never received clinical diagnoses as children in their school years. Adult ADHD is often misdiagnosed as depression or an anxiety disorder and can be overlooked as the source of such symptoms.
COVID-19 has unfortunately impacted many services and you may be asking where do I find ADHD Support online? Thankfully the foundations laid over the last year or so at ADHD Support Australia in creating an online platform to serve the ADHD community across Australia, means that during this time of social distancing and restrictions, ADHD Support can be easily accessed online, including the monthly expert speaker evenings that were previously held at Pittwater RSL.
Whilst genetic factors clearly play a role, it is not yet clear exactly what causes ADHD, but research clearly indicates there are problems with the function of key areas of the brain involved with attention and impulse-control.
It has been said that ADHD is not about an inability to concentrate, rather the ADHD brain pays attention to everything. It notices the noises across the road. The change in temperature. The paint peeling off the door. The two insects crawling on the floor.
People of all ages with ADHD tend to be way more susceptible to boredom than others. But being in self-isolation or lock down doesn’t mean all hope is lost!
In these uncertain times many people, both with and without ADHD, are certainly feeling disrupted and experiencing heightened levels of anxiety, stress, loneliness, depression and fear.
PARENTING CHILDREN WITH ADHD 6-WEEK ONLINE (START ANYTIME)
INVESTMENT: $249
STARTS ANYTIME
The course has been specifically developed for parents/carers of children and young people with ADHD.
The goal is to inform and empower you to work with your child to cope with the many challenges of parenting with ADHD by passing on practical, workable strategies that will make a difference in the lives of all family members.
The course environment promotes engagement through non-judgment, empathy and acceptance.
You’ll find greater empathy & understanding for your child’s perspective and with effective strategies on board you’ll increase confidence in your parenting skills.
This course ran face-to-face in Sydney for from 2015-2020 and is now available online so everyone can have access to these important resources!
You’ll learn…
You’ll enjoy…
The course is presented by Vivian Dunstan
Parenting Children with ADHD Course is based on a course developed by the Institute of Family Practice but contains so much more from Vivian’s own personal experience and research with ADHD.
For more details contact Vivian on vivian@adhdsupportaustralia.com.au
Imagine you have a car….. You don’t remember how you actually got the car but you have had it for as long as you can remember, even before you learned to drive. You’re now on your black license, your learner days are behind you and there is no experienced driver sitting beside you in the passenger seat guiding and supporting you.
On reviewing the literature it’s clear that mental health disorders are more often than not tied to poor sleep quality and disrupted circadian rhythms. Our circadian rhythms are tied to the natural cycles of light and dark which means the wrong type of light at the wrong time of day or night can disrupt our circadian rhythms and thereby impact our sleep negatively.
Research shows the largest group of all age groups with ADHD have an evident sleep problem. Yet, often in Mental Health practice, sleep disorders with ADHD are perceived as a symptom of rather than having a causal effect. Accumulating research suggests that if we first help patients with their sleep, this can go a long way in overcoming symptoms of ADHD as well as helping indications of Depression or Anxiety. neuroCare Clinical Director and Psychiatrist, Dr Mark Ryan recently co-wrote an article published in the Journal of Neurotherapy, with an enlightening view on the role of sleep in ADHD.
ADHD or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is a chronic condition that makes it difficult for a person to pay attention and control impulsive behaviors. When it comes to going to the dentist, patients with ADHD have a tendency to feel anxious or stressed which can make it hard for them to focus and sit still during a dental appointment.