ADHD
Ruth's passion and forte are teens and young adults who struggle with ADHD, a complex neurobiological and neurobehavioral condition typically manifested by executive function impairments. As an ADHD coach, Ruth works with how the ADHD brain operates in order to focus, follow through, stay on task, and to achieve one’s goals and dreams. All ADHD struggles fall under these three categories:
Inattentiveness
Impulsivity
Hyperactivity (not everyone experiences this)
Ruth holds a master’s degree in Behavior and Social/Emotional Disorders. She continues to be fascinated with young people’s behavior choices, how they deal with the consequences of their choices, and how thoughts determine behavior.
The following are some examples of ADHD challenges:
organization, structure, motivation, time awareness and management, planning, prioritizing, focus and follow-through with tasks and goals, listening skills, being forgetful with daily activities, racing thoughts and behaviors, difficulty delaying gratification, restlessness, easily frustrated, poor awareness and insight into self and others, processing skills.
Treatment for ADHD can include executive functioning skills training, behavior management training, education, parent support, exercise, therapy, and medication. These first five are Ruth’s specialties and her passion. If someone is seeking medication treatment, Ruth refers to local doctors and psychiatrists she highly respects.
There are great advantages that ADHD can offer an individual: high energy, great creativity, intuitiveness, enthusiasm, high achievement, empathy, non-conventional, a most successful adaptive lifestyle, a great ability to focus extremely well with one-on-one attention and if something is novel, interesting, exciting, or a passion of theirs. Ruth loves empowering ADHD teens and young adults to cultivate and celebrate all their unique and wonderful traits!
Ruth's goals are for teens and young adults to experience and embrace successful and healthy behavior management, to navigate life well, and to thrive.
Ruth is also passionate about working with and supporting parents.
Ruth specializes in these behavior disorders as well:
ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)
Presenting behavior problems are frequent and persistent anger, arguing, resistiveness, irritability, defiance, and/or vindictiveness towards authority figures, including the parents.
EBD (Emotional Behavioral Disorder)
Presenting behavior problems are difficulty with interpersonal relationships, inappropriate feelings or behaviors under normal circumstances, and general feelings of unhappiness, depression, fear, and/or anxiety with personal and school problems.