What is ADHD Life Coaching?

What Can Coaches Do for People With ADHD?

An ADHD coach is a “life coach” specifically trained to help adults (and teens and kids) with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to better manage their lives.

As an ADHD coach, I can help you:

  • Get organized

  • Assist with time blindness

  • Task paralysis

  • Stress management

  • Anxiety

  • Goal setting

  • Prioritization

  • Planning and scheduling

  • Impulse control

  • Self awareness

  • Education about ADHD

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Benefits of Coaching by ACO

Numerous, varied studies examined diverse outcomes of coaching for ADHD. Findings include the following:

Improvements in ADHD symptoms and executive functioning related behaviors:

  • Improved social behaviors in elementary school students

  • Improved grades in high school and college students

  • Improvement in learning and study skills in college students

  • Improved executive functioning skills and/or goal attainment in college students (not studied in adults)

  • Improvements in distractibility, and inattentive, social, and behavioral factors in adults

  • Clinical, symptom and/or functional improvement in all age groups

Improvements in self-esteem, well-being and quality of life:

  • Improved self-esteem in teens and college students

  • Improved life satisfaction in elementary, high school and and college students

  • Improved wellbeing in elementary and college students (not studied in teens or adults)

Summary:

While results for individuals may vary, the research suggests that, across differing age groups, study designs, and approaches to coaching, including both individual and group coaching models:

Coaching appears effective in supporting improvements in many realms of functioning for individuals with ADHD across the age span. ADHD coaching can be a stand-alone intervention or a component of comprehensive, multimodal treatment of ADHD.

Sources:

  1. Wright, S. D. (2014). ADHD coaching matters: The definitive guide. College Station, TX: ACO Books.

  2. Tuttle, L. J., Ahmann, E., & Wright, S. D. (January, 2016). Emerging evidence for the efficacy of ADHD coaching. Poster presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of APSARD (The American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders), Washington, DC.

  3. Ahmann, E., Saviet, M. & Tuttle, L. J. (October, 2017). Emerging evidence for the effectiveness of coaching for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Poster awarded Honorable Mention at the 2017 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference, Institute of Coaching/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

© 2018 Created for ACO by Ahman, E., Saviet, M. & Tuttle, L.J.
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