ADHD Reimagined: Reorganizing Symptoms and Updating Classroom Management Strategies (Series Begins Oct. 31, 2024) (Registration Closed) – The Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth, Inc.

For this webinar series, participants will automatically be enrolled in all 5 sessions.

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Speaker

Julie B. Cullen, LICSW, Ed.M.

Description

Over the last 25 years, the number of students diagnosed with ADHD has consistently increased, leading to larger numbers of identified students in our classrooms. This workshop series will provide a comprehensive understanding of the symptoms of ADHD and how they impact day to day functioning. Effective classroom strategies for increasing motivation, encouraging success, and managing behavioral responses, will be explored as well.

To receive PDPs and CEUs, participants must attend all 5 sessions, either live or recorded, and successfully pass a quiz following Session 5. If you are not eligible for PDPs and/or CEUs, you may request a Certificate of Attendance.

This session will review DSM-5 Criteria, new research on varying presentations, and the concept of ADHD as a spectrum disorder. Symptoms and impacts will be reorganized into a new way of understanding and viewing ADHD that allows for a strengths based, trauma-informed system of management.

ADHD is often accompanied by symptoms of depression and anxiety. This session will review these disorders, and explore their connection to ADHD. Ways to differentiate and better support motivation and engagement based on presentation will be explored.

Executive Functioning Skills are crucial for effective learning. This session will define these skills, and identify their role in the experience of ADHD. Finally, strategies to effectively support students in the development of EF skills will be presented.

Extreme emotional responses, difficulty controlling impulses, rejection sensitivity and recognition response euphoria are all common experiences for those with ADHD. These concepts will be defined and discussed, and strategies for management will be presented.

For those who experience symptoms of ADHD, sensory input can be helpful for regulation and control. It can also create extreme overwhelm and lead to meltdown. This session will explore the line between these two responses and identify ways to learn and use sensory preferences in classroom management procedures.

About the Speaker

Julie B. Cullen, LICSW, Ed.M., graduated from The University of Vermont in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, before enrolling in a graduate program at Boston University. She graduated in 2002 with a Master’s in Social Work and received a Masters in Special Education in 2003. Her professional career began in residential treatment, where she received intensive training in both Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and the treatment of Developmental Trauma. After spending several years as a clinician and Clinical Director in this setting, Julie spent time in a therapeutic public school environment before opening her private practice in 2012. Working with children, adolescents, and families has always been at the heart of Julie’s professional life. She hopes to bring humor, knowledge, and empathy into each experience, to bring out clients’ resiliency, and to provide families with a sense of hope for the future.

Membership Information

Most MPY webinars are available ONLY to current staff from member districts and organizations. Public school memberships include police and fire personnel. Former and retired employees and members of committees, including but not limited to, PTO/PTA, PAC, School Improvement Councils, Health Councils, Drug/Alcohol Councils, and school volunteers, are not considered MPY members.

PDPs and CEUs

MPY is an approved Professional Development Provider through the Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (Provider No. F20180079). Professional Development Points (PDPs) are offered for most MPY professional development webinars. PDPs are issued in 10 hour increments, per DESE requirements.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for clinical staff through the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association, Inc. (MaMHCA). The NASW and the MaMHCA approve each event individually. CEUs may be given in hourly increments.

Event Cancellation Policy

If you are unable to attend a MPY webinar you must cancel, through Bonnie Mullen at bonnie@mpyinc.org, one business day before the webinar.

For MPY hybrid conferences, the date in-person registration closes will be posted on MPY’s website. Virtual conference registration will close one business day before the hybrid conference. You cannot cancel or switch your registration from in-person to virtual after in-person registration closes. Please email Bonnie Mullen at bonnie@mpyinc.org with any questions regarding registration.

Enrollment in this course closed on 10/31/2024.

All sessions are 9:30 am – 11:30 am.