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

Good afternoon everyone is Susan's Susan Koppen at Attitude magazine and I'm

very pleased to welcome you to this week's webinar. We've been very

fortunate to have some wonderful speakers and today we have with us Mary Roney PhD who's a clinical

psychologist at the Child Mind Institute here in New York. She specializes in the

evaluation and treatment of ADHD and behavior anxiety and mood disorders

working at the ADHD and disruptive behavior disorder center at the Child Mind Institute.

I would like to recommend strongly the Child Mind Institute to all of you.

They have a wonderful website. I think Dr. Rene will be speaking about it again

as we get into the webinar. It's Child Mind.org and they have some terrific resources, articles and great e-newsletters.

With that, let me turn it over to Dr. Rooney, who will give a brief introduction and then we'll take questions.

Thank you.

Thank you very much and thank you for having me today.

So, yes, I'm an expert in ADHD and do a lot of work with parents of children with a

each to help improve behavior at home and to help communicate

with the school as well and kind of improve behavior all around in all settings.

I know that many of you who are on this call have probably read a lot about behavior

management and kids with ADHD and have probably tried to implement a variety of strategies at home already.

So with that in mind, I'll just give a kind of a brief overview of the key

components of some effective programs for managing kids behavior and then we'll drill down to some specific questions that come in and talk in a little bit more detail about strategies that can be implemented for those specific behaviors that many of you are probably seeing throughout the day.

So as many of you probably know, research has shown over and over again that children with ADHD benefit from specific parenting strategies.

And these aren't strategies that are necessarily intuitive or that anyone would just kind of know or think to implement off the top of their head.

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