Improving Social Intelligence of System Involved Youth with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Waynette Brock and Anisa Mustfa

Training Description

Children with ADHD (a common diagnosis of system involved youth) may experience a range of challenges that limit their social development and effectiveness. These challenges can interfere with a child’s ability to create the meaningful relationships that are necessary for success in school and in life. Training participants will explore these challenges through a social intelligence paradigm through which skills that can be learned. Participants will take away straightforward strategies to better interact with and support system involved youth as they learn and experience themselves in today’s world.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will learn methods that promote youth thinking about the feelings and reactions of others.

• Participants will learn how to create social goals along with system involved youth that reflect the social needs of the youth.