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

This is Susan Coffin. I'm here for Attitude magazine. You're listening to our Attitude magazine

ADHD expert's session. Today we have the pleasure to have Dr. Mary Salanto,

PhD, our guest speaker. She's speaking about cognitive behavior therapy and

how it can help ADHD. Adults specifically with executive functions such as time

management planning organizing and prioritizing. Dr. slantos associated with

the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and its Center for Excellence for

ADHD and Related Disorders.

She's the author of a treatment Daniel for therapists entitled

Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Adult ADHD targeting executive dysfunction.

It was published by Guilford Press in 2011.

She'll talk more about her book later,

which has proven to be useful by individuals

as well as therapists.

With that, let me turn it over to Dr. Salanta with our thanks. We appreciate so much your being here today.

Thank you. It's really a pleasure to be here and to address this topic.

So, you know, I think ADHD has, I'm sorry, CBT has generated a lot of interest, but also I think potentially a lot of confusion.

So I think it's important to kind of understand what CBT is and then how specifically it's been applied to ADHD.

So cognitive behavior therapy is an umbrella term really for a group of interventions that are specific

to different disorders to depression to anxiety different kinds of anxiety the PTSD

and now specifically to ADHD. The way cognitive behavior

therapy is used for each of those conditions varies. But what they all have in

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