Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Good afternoon and welcome. I'm Wayne Callan and you're listening to

Attitude magazine's weekly ADHD expert audio broadcast. Today's webinar

is about how cognitive behavioral therapy can change your thoughts and in the process perhaps your life.

We've all heard a lot about the benefits of CBT.

The research community has done lots of studies on it and the benefits are clear-cut and positive.

ADHD ears are in need of those benefits. Many of us get down on ourselves too easily tend to have negative thoughts and pessimistic

scenarios running through our heads, which prevent us from accomplishing what we set out to do.

We are often glass half empty types.

Today, Dr Russell Ramsey will give us perspective and approaches for using

CBT to help us manage the everyday challenges of ADHD.

Dr Ramsey is co-founder and co-directors. the everyday challenges of ADHD.

Dr Ramsey is co-founder and co-director

the University of Pennsylvania's adult ADHD treatment

and research program and an associate professor

of clinical psychology in psychiatry in the University of Pennsylvania

Herlman School of Medicine.

So with that introduction, let me turn it over to Dr. Ramsey. Russ, thanks for being here. Wayne, thank you so

much. It's always a pleasure to be part of an attitude webinar. So one of the ways to get

started on this, talking about cognitive behavioral therapy and it's a form of

psychotherapy that emphasizes the interplay of cognitions, how we think about things,

behaviors, what we do, and emotions, feelings. There's not

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