49- Green Time for ADHD: How Mother Nature Can Ease Symptoms
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Andrea Faber Taylor, Ph.D., shares her research proving that children with ADHD benefit from time in natural settings. Learn how green time can increase focus, and how to maximize your child's exposure.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Susan Kaufman for Attitude magazine. You're listening to ADHD experts, our ongoing |
| 0:18.7 | attitude magazine series. Our guest today is Andrea Faber Taylor, PhD. Her topic is how Mother Nature or Green Time can ease ADHD symptoms in both children and adults. |
| 0:30.0 | Among the topic she'll address is how much nature is enough. |
| 0:34.3 | How do we as parents handle negative experience outdoors? |
| 0:37.7 | And she'll discuss her very interesting ongoing research on the effective outdoor activity |
| 0:41.9 | at the landscape and human health laboratory at the University of outdoor activity at the Landscape and Human Health Laboratory at the University of Illinois, |
| 0:45.3 | where she is on the faculty. So with that, let me turn the microphone over to Dr. Taylor |
| 0:51.5 | with our thanks again for being with us today. It's a |
| 0:54.0 | fascinating topic and we're very interested to hear more. Thank you Susan. |
| 0:58.6 | Good afternoon everyone. This is Andrea Faber Taylor. I'm very happy to be here today and I enjoy |
| 1:06.0 | sharing this topic with you and I look forward to your questions and your |
| 1:10.0 | comments it should be should be an interesting conversation I hope. So, Go Green is the title. How Mother Nature |
| 1:17.8 | can ease your child's symptoms. Just a little about me. If you're wondering, I am a researcher. I've been studying for about 20 years now, |
| 1:26.2 | children's environments and their behavior and the relationship between those two. |
| 1:31.2 | I work at the Landscape and Human Health Laboratory here at the University of |
| 1:34.8 | Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. I'm also an instructor here and I'm also a parent so I can relate |
| 1:42.2 | to a lot of the issues that parents deal with. I've heard |
| 1:46.7 | a lot of parents stories over the years in focus groups and other through other forms of communication and I can relate for sure. So one |
| 1:57.8 | thing one take-home message I really want to I want you to take away from this is that I want everyone listening you know whether |
| 2:06.1 | you're a parent or not or whether you have ADHD or not to just be conscious of your setting and I think that I bring this up because in |
| 2:16.8 | general I think people are unaware of how our surroundings really affect our |
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