Upcoming Meetings
CHADD meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month except July and August from 7:00-9:20 pm at the Severna Park United Methodist Church, at 731 Benfield Rd, Severna Park, MD. If Anne Arundel county schools are cancelled due to weather, then the meeting will be cancelled as well.
Our next meeting will be on December 10th. Frenzied, Frazzled and Overwhelmed: The Interaction of Hormones and ADHD in Women in Midlife with Carol Ann Robbins, Ph.D.
Women with ADHD in mid-life are often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or missed. In this presentation, you will understand the impact of hormonal changes on the brain and behavior for women in mid-life. It’s NOT early Alzheimer’s. You will learn the importance of women understanding their story through the lens of ADHD—redefining themselves by their strengths, not their weaknesses. You will learn how to optimize brain functioning and the basics of proper sleep, nutrition, exercise, meditation, and stress management to improve executive functioning. Executive functioning training, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and lifestyle modifications will also be addressed. Many of these strategies apply equally to men with ADHD as well as to children.
Bio
Carol Ann Robbins, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD across the lifespan at the Annapolis ADHD Center. She has been evaluating and treating clients with ADHD and co-occurring conditions for over thirty years in private practice. Dr. Robbins has served as Coordinator of the Anne Arundel County Maryland Chapter of CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHD) since 2002. She has given numerous presentations on ADHD locally to schools, government agencies, APA, MPA, corporations, and organizations, and has been invited to speak and give workshops at several national and international conferences. She has authored Journal articles and book chapters for professionals in the field, including in Adult ADHD-Focused Couple Therapy: Clinical Interventions (Pera & Robin, 2016) and she is the expert on ADHD in the PBS documentary Red Dot on the Ocean: The Matt Rutherford Story. She is a Past President of the Maryland Psychological Association (MPA) and the Coordinator of the MPA Post-Doctoral Institute on ADHD Across the Lifespan. Dr. Robbins is also a licensed provider of Cogmed working memory training and a trained Imago Relationship therapist. Personally, she is married to an ADHD spouse and has raised two children with ADHD.
Also tonight:
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm: Parent Support Group with Carol Robbins, Ph.D.
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm: Adult Support Group
P.O. Box 254,
Arnold, MD 21012
Anne Arundel County Chapter
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