568- Social Skills and Executive Functions in Teens with ADHD: Interventions That Help
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Steven W. Evans, Ph.D., explains why youth with ADHD often have problems with academic and social functioning, and shares evidence-based approaches proven to help in these problematic areas at home and at school.
Social Skills for Teens with ADHD: Additional Resources
- Free Download: Free Guide to Improving Your Students’ Social Skills
- Read: The Social Executive Function Skills That Elude Kids with ADHD
- Read: Build Your Child’s Social Skills in 7 Steps
- Read: 10 Ways to Improve Your Teen’s Executive Skills
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| 0:33.8 | Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine. |
| 0:44.3 | Hey, everyone. My name is Annie Rogers, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I am so pleased to welcome you to today's ADHD experts' presentation titled Social Skills and Executive |
| 0:57.2 | Functions in Teens with ADHD, Interventions That Help. |
| 1:03.0 | Leading today's presentation is Dr. Stephen W. Evans. |
| 1:07.4 | Dr. Evans is a distinguished professor of psychology and co-director of the Center for |
| 1:13.9 | Intervention Research in schools at Ohio University. He was one of the first to develop |
| 1:20.8 | psychosocial treatments for adolescents with ADHD, and his primary focus was school-based interventions. He developed the Challenging Horizons |
| 1:31.2 | program, including interpersonal skills training and organization training. Research suggests that |
| 1:38.8 | these are some of the most effective approaches for adolescence with ADHD. |
| 1:50.0 | Dr. Evans' work focuses on the intersection of science and practice, and it consistently involves parents and educators who contribute to the research. |
| 1:56.0 | All right, without any further ado, I am so pleased to welcome Dr. Stephen Evans. |
| 2:03.1 | Dr. Evans, thank you so much for joining us today and for leading this discussion. |
| 2:10.8 | Thank you. I'm glad to be here. And I'm going to start by just noting that I have nothing to disclose, and then we'll dive right |
| 2:20.8 | into the agenda for the presentation today. I'm going to start by talking a little bit about |
| 2:29.2 | the nature of ADHD as it pertains to adolescence. That's going to be a very short one as I want to spend more time on services, which the next three sections pertain to. |
| 2:42.0 | So we're going to talk about general approaches to services, and there's three or four of them we'll go through. |
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