When Worry Takes Over: Reclaiming Calm, Confidence, and Connection for Kids with ADHD
- Speaker:
- Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 02 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Dec 19, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150486
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Living in a post-Covid world that’s increasingly unpredictable, today’s children and teens are more anxious than ever before. For students with ADHD and neurodivergence, managing anxiety in conjunction with executive functioning deficits can be especially daunting. Young people with ADHD (already susceptible to higher incidences of co-occurring conditions) are now living with increased rates of anxiety that are interfering with their social, educational and emotional development. Previous strategies for emotional control and self-soothing seem to have stopped working effectively in this new landscape of extended uncertainty. Worry and fear have increased the natural biological agitation, distractedness and impulsivity that accompanies living with ADHD so that daily apprehension, social anxiety and unrealistic performance expectations have escalated. Craving a sense of security that is often unattainable, young people with ADHD feel stressed and overwhelmed.
In this session, Dr. Sharon Saline examines how ADHD and anxiety are two of the most commonly co-occurring disorders in children and adolescents, with overlapping symptoms that often complicate diagnosis and treatment. She discusses why youth with ADHD are at significantly increased risk for anxiety disorders which can amplify functional impairments in home, school, and social settings. After examining the physiology and psychology of both ADHD and anxiety, she looks at how to change somebody’s relationship to worry, reduce their negative thinking, and uncover core beliefs about inadequacy and insecurity. Using cognitive behavioral, insight-oriented and mindfulness interventions, Dr. Saline shares practical, research-based strategies for enhancing self-regulation, metacognition, social confidence and self-compassion in anxious children and adolescents. This workshop offers therapists and mental health professionals an in-depth, evidence-based approach to working with youth who experience ADHD and anxiety symptoms across a broad spectrum—from excessive worry, perfectionism and obsessive compulsive disorder to avoidance, panic and hoarding. Armed with these techniques, practitioners can assist their clients with learning to transform worry and shame into curiosity and confidence.
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| Transcript - When Worry Takes Over (167.6 KB) | 31 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - When Worry Takes Over (3.1 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - When Worry Takes Over - French (3.1 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - When Worry Takes Over - French (167.6 KB) | 31 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - When Worry Takes Over - Italian (3.1 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - When Worry Takes Over - Italian (167.6 KB) | 31 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - When Worry Takes Over - German (3.1 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - When Worry Takes Over - German (167.6 KB) | 31 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - When Worry Takes Over - Spanish (3.1 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - When Worry Takes Over - Spanish (167.6 KB) | 31 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| ASHA Instructions - Self Study (111.9 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP Related seminars and products
Dr. Sharon Saline, PLLC
Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP, clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD Solution Deck, specializes in working with children, teens, and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, twice exceptionality and mental health issues.
With decades of experience as a clinical psychologist, educator and consultant, she guides people towards a greater understanding about neurodivergence and to live with more productivity and connection. She lectures and facilitates workshops internationally on topics such as ADHD ad neurodivergence, executive functioning, the anxiety spectrum, motivation, perfectionism and working with different kinds of learners.
Dr. Saline is on the advisory panel, serves as a contributing editor at ADDitudemag.com and hosts their monthly Solve My Problem live webinar sessions. She is an instructor in the department of psychiatry, University of Massachusetts-Baystate, T.H. Chan School of Medicine, Springfield, MA. She also blogs for PsychologyToday.com, appears as a featured expert on MASS Appeal on WWLP-TV and is a part-time lecturer at the Smith School for Social Work. She has been featured in numerous online and print publications including The New York Times, MSN, The Washington Post, The Psychotherapy Networker, Smith College Studies in Social Work, Attention Magazine, Attitude Magazine and more.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sharon Saline maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Smith College School for Social Work and Additudemag.com. . She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sharon Saline is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Massachusetts Psychological Association, the Children and Adults with ADHD, and the Attention Deficit Disorder Association.
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Objectives
- Describe how ADHD and anxiety work in the brain and body and affect each other.
- Explain the role of executive functioning skills in managing anxiety and how to de-escalate intense emotions.
- Clarify the meaning and effect of limiting core beliefs in perpetuating anxiety and reduce patterns of negative thinking in youth with ADHD.
- Develop the ability to externalize anxiety, reduce its influence on daily tasks, productivity and self-concept and learn practical tools for dealing with specific worries.
- Identify and develop areas of resilience in home, social and educational contexts.
Outline
Part I: Understanding the neurodevelopmental and emotional landscape of ADHD and anxiety in youth
- Introduction, review of limitations of research and methods described in webinar
- ADHD and anxiety: prevalence, comorbidity, and developmental trajectories
- How ADHD and anxiety interact (e.g., inattentiveness vs. worry, impulsivity vs. panic)
- Examine anxiety disorders commonly seen in youth with ADHD
Part II: Examining evidence-based treatment approaches for anxiety disorders with ADHD
- Review CBT, DBT, insight-oriented and applied internal family systems methods
- Explain the process for externalizing anxiety and changing the relationship to it
- Uncover limiting core beliefs that underlie anxiety and contribute to negative-self-talk
Part III: Applying executive functioning supports to reduce overwhelm
- Improve impulse and emotional control
- Teach metacognition to improve self-awareness
- Analyze and learn interventions to address with anxiety-related procrastination
Part IV: Fostering confidence and resilience
- Reframe deficits as differences: Strengths-based mindset
- Techniques to teach youth to recognize and articulate their needs
- Nurture resilience: Gratitude, growth mindset, and self-compassion
Part V: Questions, participants case examples and review of key take-away points
Target Audience
- Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Social Workers
- Others
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