ADHD COUPLES PALOOZA Handout

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This infographic demonstrates the executive function skills as described by Dr Russell Barkley. He describes seven executive function skills and this has been categorised into four areas- to assist people in recalling these attributes. Everyone with or without ADHD has executive functioning skills. The challenge that ADHD presents is that the inconsistency of brain chemistry, the fuels the area of the brain (the pre frontal cortex) where this “suite of skills” are processed.Thus the inconsistent fuelling impacts the executive functions that are key in our self -regulation. ADHD can better be described as challenges with self – regulation of the executive functions.